Seagate 3240 manual

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medalist 3240 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medalist 2531 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ATA In terfac e D rives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medalist 3240 (S T33 240A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medalist 2531 (S T32 531A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ATA In terfac e D rives . . . . . . . . . . [...]

 1997 Seagate Technology , I nc. All r ights r eserved Publicat ion Number: 20401033-001, Rev. A, March 1997 Seagate, Seagate Technology, t he Seagate logo, Medalist and the Medalist logo are eit her trademarks or registered t rademarks of S eagate Technology, I nc. Other product names are regis tered trademarks or trademarks of their owners. Se[...]

Contents Int rodu c ti on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Specificat ion summary tabl e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. 0 Dr ive s peci fi ca tion s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1 Formatted c apacit y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1.1 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . [...]

1.12.2 Electromagnetic Compatibili ty . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1. 12.3 FCC v eri fi ca t ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2. 0 Dr ive m oun ting a nd conf igur at i on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.1 Handling and static - dis charge precautions . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2 Jumper sett ings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

Fig ur es Figure 1. Typical startup and operation current prof ile . . . . . . . 9 Figure 2. Master/slave jumpers and al ternate capaci ty jumper . . 18 Figure 3. Drive mounting dimensions—top, end and side view . . . 19 Figure 4. I/O pins and s upported ATA signals . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Medalist 3240 and Medalist 2531 Pr oduct Manual, Rev. A [...]

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In tr od uct ion The Medalist ® 3240 (ST33240A) and Medalist 2531 (ST32531A) prov ide the following key features: • Low power consumption • Quiet operation • Support for S. M.A.R.T driv e monit oring and reporting • High ins tantaneous (burst) data-trans fer rates (up t o 16. 6 Mbytes per second) usi ng PIO m ode 4 and DMA mode 2 • Full-[...]

Spe cification summ ary t able The speci fications li sted i n this table ar e for qui ck refer ence. For details on specif ic ation meas urement or def inition, see t he appropriate s ection of t his manual. Dr iv e S p ec i f ica t i o n ST33240A ST3253 1A Guarant eed Mbyte s ( × 10 6 bytes) 3,22 7 2,557 Guarant eed s ector s 6,3 03,024 4,995 ,6[...]

Dr iv e S p ec i f ica t i o n ST33240A ST3253 1A Startup cu rrent : 1 2V (pe ak) 5V (RMS) 1.6 amps 0.5 amps Seek po wer ( me an) 4.3 wat t s Operat in g power (typi ca l) 4.6 wat t s Idl e mo de powe r ( typic al) 4.5 wa tts Standby mod e pow er (typica l) 1.0 wat t s Sleep m ode po w er (ty pical ) 0.7 wat t s V oltage t olerance (incl uding n oi[...]

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1.0 D ri ve specif icatio ns Unless otherwise not ed, all specif ic ati ons are measured under ambient conditions , at 25° C, and nom inal power. For convenience the phrases the driv e and this drive are used throughout this manual t o i ndicate both the ST33240A and the ST32531A. 1. 1 Fo rm a tt ed ca p acity ST33240A ST32531A Guaranteed M bytes [...]

The ST32531A s upports any translation geom et ry that satisfies the sectors and head limitations above, and • (Sec tors p er tr ack) × (Read/Wr ite heads) × (cylinder s) ≤ 4,995,648 1.2 Phy sica l organi zati on ST33240A ST32531A Read/Writ e heads 8 6 Discs 4 3 1.3 Rec or din g and inte rf ace tec hn ology In ter fac e ATA Recording method 2[...]

1.5 Seek time All seek ti mes are measured using a 486 A T computer (or faster) wit h an 8.3 MHz I/O bus. T he measurements are taken with nominal power at sea level and 25° C ambient temper ature. All t imes are measured using drive diagnostics . The specifications in the table below are def ined as follows: • Track-to- track seek time is an av[...]

1.7 Pow er spe cif icat io ns The dri ve receives DC power (+5V or + 12V) thr ough a four-pin standard drive power connect or. 1.7. 1 Po wer co nsumpti on Pow er r equi r ement s f or t he drive ar e l ist ed in t he t abl e b elo w. Typ ical po wer measu r ement s are b ased o n an av e rage of dri ves tes ted unde r nomina l con diti ons , us in [...]

1. 7. 1 . 1 T yp i ca l cu rr ent pr o fi l e Figure 1 shows a typical c urrent prof ile f or the Medalist 3240 and the Medalist 2531. 1. 7. 2 C on du ct e d no i se Input noise ri pple is measured at the host system power supply across an equival ent 80-ohm resi stive load on the +12 volt line or an equivalent 15 ohm resist ive load on the + 5 v o[...]

1.7 .4 Po wer-m anagem ent m odes Th is driv e pr ovid es pr ogr amm abl e pow er m anag eme nt to pro vid e greater energy efficienc y. In most systems, you can control power management through the system setup program. This Seagate drive features s everal power-management modes, which are summarized in the f ollowing table and described in m ore [...]

any dri ve ac tiv i ty is re qui r ed, t he driv e makes a t rans i tion to I dle mode. If the hos t has set the s tan dby t i mer , th e st and by c ou ntdown c onti nues . If t h e host has not set t he stand by tim er, the dr ive remai ns in Idl e mode. If the st andb y time r reac hes zero bef ore any dri ve ac tivi t y is requi red, the dri ve[...]

1.8. 5 Shock For all shock specificat ions, it is assumed that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws . Shock may be applied in t he X, Y or Z axis. For the nonoperat ing speci fications , it i s as sumed that the r ead/write heads are positioned in t he shipping zone. Note . At power-down, the read/[...]

1.8. 6.2 Nonoper ati ng vibra tion The following table lists the max i mum nonoperating vibration that the drive may exper ience without incur ring physical damage or degradation in performance when subsequently put into operation. 5–22 Hz 0.081-i nch displacement (peak t o peak) 22–350 Hz 5 Gs acceleration (zero to peak) 1.9 Drive aco ust ics [...]

Contact start- stop cycles 40,000 cycles (at nomi nal volt age and temperature, with 60 cycles per hour and a 50% duty cycle) Preventive m aintenance None requi red 1.12 Ag enc y cert ificat ion 1.12.1 Safet y cert ificat ion The dri ve is recogni zed in acc ordance with UL 1950 and CSA C22.2 (950) and meets all applic able sections of I EC 950 and[...]

Radio and Television Interference. T his equi pment generat es and uses radio frequency energy and if not install ed and us ed in strict accordance wit h the manufacturer’s instruc tions, may cause interf erence to radio and t elevis ion recepti on. This equipment is designed to provide reasonable protection agains t such int erference in a r esi[...]

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2.0 Dr ive m ount ing and co nfigur at ion 2.1 Han dl ing and sta tic -d isch ar ge pr ecau ti on s Aft er un pac ki ng, an d be for e i nst all atio n, the d r ive may be expose d t o pote nt ial h andl in g a nd ele ctro sta tic di schar g e (ES D) hazar d s. You mus t obs erve s tand ar d st atic -di sc harg e prec au tions . A groun ded wri s t[...]

2.3 Dr ive moun tin g You can mount the drive in any orientation using f our screws in the side-mounting holes or f our sc rews in t he bottom-mount ing holes. S ee Figure 3 on page 19 for drive m ounting dimensions. • Allow a minimum clear ance of 0.030 inches (0.76 mm) around the entire perimeter of the dr ive f or cooling. • Use only 6x32 UN[...]

1.00 ± 0.03 ( 25.4 ± 0.8) 3.72 ± 0.03 (94.5 ± 0.8 ) 4.00 ± 0 . 02 (101.6 ± 0 .5 ) 3.750 ± 0.010 (95.25 ± 0 . 25) 5.75 ± 0.03 ( 146.1 ± 0.8 ) 4.000 ± 0.010 ( 101.60 ± 0.25 ) 3x.250 ± 0 . 015 (6.35 ± 0.38) (both sides) 2.23 ± 0.03 (56.6 ± 0.8 ) 0.230 ± 0.015 (5.84 ± 0.38 ) 0.180 ± 0.015 (4.57 ± 0.38) 2.362 ± 0.010 ( 59.99 ± 0.25[...]

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3.0 A TA in ter face This drive us es the industry-st andard A TA tas k file interface. It support s both 8-bit and 16-bit data tr ansfers. I t supports ATA pr ogrammed in- put/output (P IO) modes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4; ATA single-wor d DMA modes 0, 1 and 2; and A TA multiword DMA modes 0, 1 and 2. The drive also supports the use of the IORDY signal to [...]

Reset – Ground DD7 DD8 DD6 DD9 DD5 DD10 DD4 DD11 DD3 DD12 DD2 DD13 DD1 DD14 DD0 DD15 Ground (removed) DMARQ Ground DIOW – Ground DIOR – Ground IORDY CSEL DMACK – Ground INTRQ IOCS16 – DA1 PDIAG – DA0 DA2 CS1FX – CS3FX – DASP – Ground Pins 28, 34 and 39 are used for master-slave communication (details shown below). Host 28 34 39 Dr[...]

3.2 ATA Inter face c ommands 3.2. 1 Su pported ATA co mmand s The foll owing table li sts ATA-standard commands that the driv e supports. For a detailed desc ription of the ATA commands, refer to the Draft Proposed ATA-3 Standard. See section 3. 2.4 on page 29 for details and subcommands used in t he S.M.A.R.T. implementation. Command n ame Command[...]

Command n ame Command code Sup por t ed by this dr i ve Set M ultiple M ode C6 H Yes Wr ite Bu ffe r E8 H Yes Write D MA (w/r etry) CA H Yes Wri te DMA (no r etr y) CB H Ye s Wri te Long (w/retry) 32 H Yes Wri te Long (no r etry) 33 H Yes Wri te Multiple C5 H Yes Write S ame E9 H No Wri te Sectors (w/retry ) 30 H Yes Write S ector s ( no ret ry) 31[...]

The foll owing commands contain drive-spec ific features that may not be descri bed in the Draft Proposed ATA-3 Standard . 3.2. 2 Iden ti fy Driv e command The Identify Dr ive command (command code EC H ) transfer s information about the drive to t he host following power up. The data is organiz ed as a single 512-byte block of data, whose contents[...]

Word Description Co n ten ts 20 Controller ty pe = dual-port multisec tor buffer with caching (not used) 0000 H 21 Buffer s ize (not used) 0000 H 22 Number of ECC byt es av ailable (4) 0004 H 23–26 Firmware revision (8 ASCII character string): x.xx 27–46 Drive model number: (40 AS CII char acters, padded wit h blanks to end of string) ST 3324 0[...]

Word Description Co n ten ts 61 LBA sec tors avail able ( conti nued) 0060 H (ST 33 24 0A ) 007C H (ST 32 53 1A ) 62 ATA-obsolete 0000 H 63 Multiwor d DMA active and modes supported (see not e followi ng t his t able) 0 x 07 H 64 Advanced P IO modes supported (m odes 3 and 4 supported) 0003 H 65 Minimum multiword DMA tr ansfer cycl e time per word [...]

3.2. 3 Set Feat ures c ommand This command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supports. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY, checks t he contents of the Featur es registe r, clears BSY and generat es an interrupt . If the value in t he register does not represent a feat ure that the dri ve supports, the com[...]

3.2.4 S.M .A.R. T. commands Self-Monit oring, Analysi s and Reporting T echnology ( S.M.A.R.T.) is an emerging technology that provides near-term fail ure prediction for disc drives. W hen S.M.A.R.T. is enabled, the S eagate drive monitors prede- termined driv e attributes t hat are susceptible to degradati on over time. If a fail ure is likely t o[...]

Co de i n Features Register S.M.A.R. T. Command Sup port ed by Medalist 3240 and Medalist 2531 DB H Enable/ dis able Automat ic Off-l ine Yes Note . If an appropriate c ode is not written to the Features Register, the command will be abor ted and 0 x 04 (abort) wi ll be written to the Error regist er. 30 Medalist 3240 and M edalist 2531 Product Man[...]

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