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    TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMA TION SYSTEMS STORAGE DEVICE DIVISION IRVINE, CALIFORNIA MK2016GAP (HDD2154) 2.5-INCH HARD DISK DRIVE USER MANU AL Rev 02 11/2006[...]

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    CONTENTS Introductio n .............................................................................. 1 Setup ........................................................................................ 2 Using t he HDD ......................................................................... 4 T roub leshoo ting .......................................[...]

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    1 INTR ODUCTION – MK2016GAP (HDD2154) General Features • 2.5" sized drive • 2 Platter • 20 Gigabytes* • 9.5mm High • 13ms Average Seek Time • ATA-2,3,4 Interface • Ultra66 Supported • 1MB Buffer • Rotational speed of 4,200rpm • MTTF 300,000 Hours *Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1 ,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as [...]

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    2 SETUP – MK2016GAP (HDD2154) Caution : Your Hard Di sk Drive is a precision devi ce and even a small drop onto any surface can cause damage. Electron static discharge can also d amage the drive. You should ground yourself prior to handling the drive. Master/Slave Settings Your Toshiba Hard Di sk Drive can be configured as either a "Ma ster&[...]

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    3 Installation Notes  The drive should be mo unted carefully on the su rface of 0.1mm or l ess flatness to avoid excessive distortion.  In order to prevent short-ci rcuit under any circum stances, a space of 0.5mm or more should be kept under the PCB.  Space should be kept around the dri ve to avoid an y contact with other p arts, which ma[...]

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    4 USING THE HARD DISK DRI VE – MK2016GAP (HDD2154) Backing up Data Files To avoid data loss, regularly back u p the data files on the hard disk drive.[...]

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    5 TR OUBLESHOO TING – MK2016GAP (HDD2154) Problem Solution My system is not able to reco gnize all available capacity on my Hard Disk Drive. What do I need to do to utilize the complete hard drive? There are some systems that are unable to recognize the new larger Hard Drives on the market. 3rd party software is available that breaks the "c [...]

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    6 SPECIFICA TIONS – MK 2016GAP (HDD2154) General Model MK2016GAP (HDD2154) Interface ATA-2/3/4 Functionality Formatted Capacity 20.003GB* Rotational Speed 4200rpm Avg. Rotational Latency 7.14/ms Spin-up Time 4sec (typical) Buffer 1MB Seek Time (Averag e) 13 Internal Transfer Rate 121.4 ~ 234.1Mbits/se c (max) Host Transfer Rate Ultra DMA mode PIO[...]

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    7 Physical Height 0.37" (9.5mm) Width 2.75" (69.85mm) Depth 3.94" (100mm) Weight 3.49oz (99g) typ Regulatory The drive satisfies the following standards: Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 1950 Canadian Standard Associ ation (CSA) C22.2 No.220 No. 950 TUV Rheinland EN 60 95 0 EMC - EN50081-1 EN55022: 1988 Class B EN60555-2: 1987+ A1 EN60[...]

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    8 DRIVE CONNECT ORS – MK2016GAP (HDD2154) Figure 1.MK2016GAP HDD Rear View - Connec tors Interface Connector Drive Side Connector Yamaichi GAP050K11617 or eq uivalent Recommended Ho st Side Connector Board Straight type: Berg 86455-044 86456 -044 or equivalent Cable Berg 89361-044 or equi valent Recommended Cable Charac teristics Standard diamete[...]

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    9 Interface Pin Assignment DRIVE INTERFACE SIGNALS PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL 1 RESET 2 GROUND 3 DD 7 4 DD 8 5 DD 6 6 DD 9 7 DD 5 8 DD 10 9 DD 4 10 DD 11 11 DD 3 12 DD 12 13 DD 2 14 DD 13 15 DD 1 16 DD 14 17 DD 0 18 DD 15 19 GROUND 20 KEY 21 DMARQ 22 GROUND 23 DIOW/STOP 24 GROUND 25 DIOR/ -DMARDY HSTROBE 26 GROUND 27 IORDY/ -DMARDY/- DSTROBE 28 CSEL 29 [...]