Seagate ST173404FC Manual

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheetah 73FC Disc Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 11.0 ScopeThis manual describes Seagate® Cheetah 73FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives.Cheetah 73FC drives support the

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Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 32.0 Applicable standards and reference documentationThe drive has been developed as a system peripheral to the hi

4 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CAustralian C-TickIf this model has the C-Tick Marking it complies with the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS3

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 53.0 General descriptionCheetahTM 73FC drives combine giant magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, partial response/maximum

6 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C3.1 Standard featuresCheetah 73FC drives have the following standard features:• Integrated dual port FC-AL contro

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 73.4 Reliability• 1,200,000 hour MTBF• LSI circuitry• Balanced low mass rotary voice coil actuator• Self-Monitorin

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Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 94.0 Performance characteristicsThis section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characte

10 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C4.2.3 General performance characteristics 4.3 Start/stop timeIf the Motor Start option is disabled, the drive b

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 114.5 Cache operationNote.Refer to the Fibre Channel Interface Manual for more detail concerning the cache bits.Of

12 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. Cto be written are already stored in the cache from a previous read or write command. If there are, the respec-ti

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 135.0 Reliability specifications The following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operationa

14 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C5.1.4 Seek errorsA seek error is defined as a failure of the drive to position the heads to the addressed track.

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 15Failure rate is calculated as follows:• No system-induced failures counted• Based on 1,200,000 MTBF and 720 POH

16 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CNote.The drive’s firmware monitors specific attributes for degradation over time but can’t predict instanta-neou

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 17dictive threshold, a predictive failure is signaled. This counter is referred to as the Failure History Counter.

18 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C5.2.9.2.3 Short and extended testsDST has two testing options:1. short2. extendedThese testing options are descr

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 19tion, refer to the standard terms and conditions of purchase for Seagate products on your purchase documen-tatio

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Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 216.0 Physical/electrical specificationsThis section provides information relating to the physical and electrical

22 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C6.2.1 Conducted noise immunity Noise is specified as a periodic and random distribution of frequencies covering

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 23 Figure 4. Typical Cheetah 73FC drive +5V current profile0 4 8 1216202428320.00.51.0A1.5SecondsAverage value

24 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C6.3 Power dissipation Typical power dissipation under idle conditions is 17.05 watts (58.18 BTUs per hour).To ob

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 25Table 2: PCBA and HDA temperaturesNotes.[1] Section 8.3.1 describes the air-flow patterns used when generating t

26 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C6.4.2 Relative humidityThe values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs.a. Operating5% to 95% no

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 27d. PackagedDisc drives shipped as loose load (not palletized) general freight will be packaged to withstand drop

28 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C6.4.4.2 Vibrationa. Operating - normalThe drive as installed for normal operation, shall comply with the complet

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 296.5 Mechanical specificationsThe following nominal dimensions are exclusive of the decorative front panel access

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Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 317.0 Defect and error management The drive, as delivered, complies with this product manual. The read error rates

32 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C[1] These values are subject to change.Setting these retry counts to a value below the default setting could res

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 338.0 InstallationCheetah 73FC disc drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches,

34 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C [1] The drive has a 2.2K ohm resistor in series with this LED driver. Tie the minus side of anexternal high

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 35created while providing air flow to the electronics and HDA. Also, the shortest possible path between the airinl

36 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C8.6 GroundingSignal ground (PCBA) and HDA ground are connected together in the drive and cannot be separated by

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 379.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on ST17340

38 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C9.1.4 Fibre Channel port loginTable 7 identifies the required content of the N_Port Login (PLOGI) payload from a

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 399.1.5 Fibre Channel port login acceptTable 8 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values.Table 8: N_Port L

Revision status summary sheet Revision Date Writer/Engineer Sheets AffectedA 7/27/2000 L. Newman/G. Velaski 1/1, v thru viii, 1 thru 68.B (Class

40 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C9.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric loginTable 11 lists the fabric login payload from the drive.Table 11: Fabric Login (

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 419.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept loginTable 11 lists the required content of the Fabric Login Accept (ACC) payl

42 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop optionsTable 13 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah 73FC drives.9.

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 439.3 SCSI commands supported Table 14 lists the SCSI commands that ST173404FC drives support.Table 14: Supported

44 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CY Supported diagnostics pages Y Translate page 25h Y Read capacity 28h Y Read extended Y Disable page outY Force

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 45[1] Cheetah 73FC drives can format to any multiple of four bytes per logical block in the range 512 to 704bytes.

46 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C9.3.1 Inquiry data Table 15 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per the

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 474. Changeable valuesChangeable values form a bit mask, stored in nonvolatile memory, that dictates which of the

48 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CTable 16: Mode Sense data default and changeable values ST173404FCBytes00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 499.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 17 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in the

50 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C9.5 FC-AL physical interface Figure 12 shows the location of the J1 Fibre Channel single connection attachment (

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 519.5.2 Connector requirements Recommended mating SCA part number:The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in

52 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C9.5.3 Electrical description Fibre Channel drives use the FC-SCA connector for:• DC power• FC-AL interface• Driv

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 539.5.5 FC-AL transmitters and receiversA typical FC-AL differential copper transmitter and receiver pair is shown

54 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CThe Active LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper+5

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 559.5.11.1 Parallel Enclosure Services Interface (ESI)The parallel ESI line is an output from the drive. This line

56 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CTable 23: Arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) valuesAL_PA(hex)SEL ID(hex)Setting(dec)AL_PA(hex)SEL ID(hex)S

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 579.6 Signal characteristicsThis section describes the electrical signal characteristics of the drive’s input and

58 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CFigure 17 provides the data output valid eye diagram relative to the bit cell time. Table 28 lists the data valu

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5910.0 Seagate Technology support servicesOnline ServicesInternetwww.seagate.com for information about Seagate pro

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C viiContents1.0 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

60 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CTechnical SupportIf you need help installing your drive, consult your dealer. Dealers are familiar with their un

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 61European Support ServicesFor European customer support, dial the toll-free number for your specific country for

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Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 63IndexNumerics12 volt pins 533rd party reserve command 455 volt pins 53AAbort Sequence (ABTS) 37abort tas

64 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. Cdata valid eye 58Date code page command 43DC power 52requirements 21defect and error management 31defe

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 65complete, code 00 37not supported, code 05 37reject, code 04 37GGood status 49gradient 25, 26ground

66 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. CGood 49Intermediate/condition met/good 49Intermediate/good 49Reservation conflict 49Task set full 49mi

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C 67Process Logout (PRLO) 37public loopFC-AL options 42pull down resistor 54Qqueue tagging 49Rradio interfer

68 Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. Callowable for non-flat surface 35switches 33Synchronize cache command 44synchronized spindleoperation 49

viii Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C6.4.3 Effective altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seagate Technology, LLC920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USAPublication Number: 83329482, Rev. C, Printed in USA

Cheetah 73FC Product Manual, Rev. C ixList of FiguresFigure 1. Cheetah 73FC family disc drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .