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Product ManualCheetah 15K.6 FC100465943Rev. AOctober 2007ST3450856FCST3300656FCST3146356FC

2Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A32.0 Applicable standards and reference documentationThe drive has been developed as a system peripheral to the

4Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A2.1.2 Electromagnetic complianceSeagate uses an independent laboratory to confirm compliance with the directiv

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A5Seagate also has internal systems in place to ensure ongoing compliance with the RoHS Directive and all laws a

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Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A73.0 General descriptionCheetah 15K.6 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a vari

8Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A3.1 Standard featuresCheetah 15K.6 FC drives have the following standard features:• Perpendicular recording te

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A93.3 Performance• Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 800 Mbytes/sec maximum instantaneous data trans

10Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A• Single-unit shipping pack. The drive is normally shipped in bulk packaging to provide maximum protection ag

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A114.0 Performance characteristicsThis section provides detailed information concerning performance-related char

©2007, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100465943, Rev. A October 2007Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo a

12Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A4.2.2 Format command execution time (minutes) 4.2.3 General performance characteristics 4.3 Start/stop time

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A13the applicable bytes in page 08h. Prefetch and cache operations are independent features from the standpoint

14Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AIf the number of write data logical blocks exceed the size of the segment being written into, when the end of

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A155.0 Reliability specificationsThe following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operatio

16Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A5.1.3 Seek errorsA seek error is defined as a failure of the drive to position the heads to the addressed tra

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A17The Pass-through state is disabled while the drive performs self test of the FC interface. The control line f

18Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AReporting controlReporting is controlled by the MRIE bits in the Informational Exceptions Control mode page (

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A19be used to set this trip point. The default value for this drive is 68°C, however, you can set it to any valu

20Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A• Motor will not spin• Motor will not lock to speed• Servo will not lock on track• Drive cannot read configur

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A21The drive will report the failure condition and LBA (if applicable) in the Self-test Results Log parameter. T

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AiContents1.0 Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A236.0 Physical/electrical specificationsThis section provides information relating to the physical and electric

24Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A [1] Measured with average reading DC ammeter. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these val-ue

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A25347 I/Os per second for ST3300656FC and ST3146356FC models. Current and power specified at nomi-nal voltages.

26Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A Figure 1. Typical ST3450856FC current profiles

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A27 Figure 2. Typical ST3300656FC current profiles

28Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A Figure 3. Typical ST3146356FC current profiles

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A296.3 Power dissipationST3450856FCTypical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 12.27

30Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AST3300656FCTypical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 10.69 watts (36.5 BTUs per

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A31ST3146356FCTypical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 9.56 watts (32.6 BTUs per h

iiCheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A6.4.2 Relative humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

32Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. Ab. Non-operating–40° to 158°F (–40° to 70°C) package ambient with a maximum gradient of 36°F (20°C) per hour.

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A33b. Operating—abnormalEquipment, as installed for normal operation, does not incur physical damage while subje

34Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A Figure 8. Recommended mountingZYXZYX

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A356.4.4.2 Vibrationa. Operating—normalThe drive as installed for normal operation, shall comply with the comple

36Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AUsers should use caution exposing any electronic components to uncontrolled chemical pollutants and corro-siv

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A376.5 Mechanical specificationsThe following nominal dimensions are exclusive of the decorative front panel acc

38Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A397.0 Defect and error management Seagate continues to use innovative technologies to manage defects and errors

40Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AThe drive firmware error recovery algorithms consists of 13 levels for read recoveries and five levels for wr

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A41[1] These values are subject to change. Setting these retry counts to a value below the default setting coul

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. Aiii9.6 Signal characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

42Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. Aservice by the host system. On regular duty drives, if the host system makes use of the BMS Log Page, it can

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A437.7 Idle Read After WriteIdle Read After Write (IRAW) utilizes idle time to verify the integrity of recently

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Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A458.0 InstallationCheetah 15K.6 FC disc drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, sw

46Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AIf forced air is necessary, possible air-flow patterns are shown in Figure 10. The air-flow patterns are crea

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A478.5 GroundingSignal ground (PCBA) and HDA ground are connected together in the drive and cannot be separated

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Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A499.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Chee

50Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.1.2 Fibre Channel task management functionsTable 7 lists the Fibre Channel SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol (FC

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A519.1.4 Fibre Channel port loginTable 9 identifies the required content of the N_Port Login (PLOGI) payload fro

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52Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.1.5 Fibre Channel port login acceptTable 10 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values.9.1.6 Fibre C

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A539.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Login AcceptTable 12 lists Cheetah 15K.6 FC process login accept payload data.9.1

54Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept loginTable 14 lists the required content of the Fabric Login Accept (ACC) p

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A559.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop optionsTable 15 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah 15K.6 FC dr

56Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.3 SCSI commands supported Table 16 lists the SCSI commands supported by Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives. Tab

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A57Y Verify error recovery page (07h) Y Caching parameters page (08h) Y Control mode page (0Ah)Y Fibre Channel I

58Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A32h N Search data low 33h N Set limits 34h N Prefetch 35h Y Synchronize cache 36h N Lock-unlock-cache 37h Y R

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A59[1] Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives can format to 512, 520, 524 or 528 bytes per logical block.[2] Warning. Power los

60Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.3.1 Inquiry data Table 17 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A61On standard OEM drives, the saved values are taken from the default values list and stored into the saved val

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AvList of FiguresFigure 1. Typical ST3300656FC current profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

62Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. ATable 18: Mode Sense data saved, default and changeable values for ST3450856FC drives MODE DATA HEADER:00 be

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A63Table 19: Mode Sense data default and changeable values for ST3300656FC drives MODE DATA HEADER:00 be 00 10 0

64Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. ATable 20: Mode Sense data default and changeable values for ST3146356FC drives MODE DATA HEADER: 00 be 00 10

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A659.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 21 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in

66Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.5 FC-AL physical interface Figure 11 shows the location of the J1 Fibre Channel single connection attachmen

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A679.5.2 Connector requirements The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in Figure 13. Figure 13. FC-AL

68Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. ATable 24: FC-SCA pin descriptions *Short pins in mating backpanel connector.[1] This pin may be connected to

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A699.5.6 PowerPower is supplied through the FC-SCA with support for +5 volts and +12 volts. All of the voltage p

70Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.5.8 Active LED OutThe Active LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 25.The Active LED

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A719.5.11 SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID linesThe SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID lines determine drive address, and, optionally,

72Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. ATable 27: Arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) valuesAL_PA (hex)SEL ID (hex)Setting (dec)AL_PA (hex)SEL I

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A739.5.12 Device control codesThe drive inputs a Device Control Code on the DEV_CTRL_CODE lines at power up to d

74Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A9.6.2 LED driver signalsFault and Active LED signals are located in the FC-SCA connector (J1). See Table 30 f

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A75Figure 16 provides the data valid eye diagram for typical and minimum requirements to recover data at the spe

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Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A7710.0 Seagate Technology support servicesInternetFor information regarding Seagate products and services, visi

78Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. ACustomer Service OperationsWarranty ServiceSeagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate products. Se

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A79IndexNumerics12 voltpins 693rd party reserve command 595 volt pins 69AAbort Sequence (ABTS) 49abort t

80Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. ADDAR 42data headsread/write 11data rateinternal 11data transfer rate 12data valid eye 75Date code p

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A81flawed sector reallocation 8FLOGIreceived on Port A 53received on Port B 53Force unit access command

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A11.0 ScopeThis manual describes Seagate Technology® LLC, Cheetah® 15K.6 FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives.Cheetah

82Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. AReporting actual retry count 65Segmented caching 65SMP = 1 in Mode Select command 65Synchronized (locke

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. A83Prefetch command 58prefetch/multi-segmented cache control 12preventive maintenance 15private loopFC-AL

84Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. Asingle-unit shipping pack kit 10SMART 9, 17SMP = 1 in Mode Select command 65SO 51, 54spindle brak

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