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viii Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT Figure 3-1 Mechanical Dimensions of Maxtor D540X-4K Hard Disk Drive ................. 3-1 Figure 3-2 Drive Packing Assembly ............................................................................... 3-2 Figure 3-3 Drive Packing Assembly of a Polypr...

Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ix Table 3-1 AT Jumper Options .............................................................................................. 3-5 Table 3-2 J1 Power Connector, Section A .......................................................................... 3-12 Table 3-...

About This Manual 1-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT • ATA advanced technology attachment • bpi bits per inch • dB decibels • dBA decibels, A weighted • DPS Data Protection System • SPS Shock Protection System • ECC error correcting code • Kfci thousands of flux changes per inch • Hz hert...

About This Manual Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 1-3 • Parameters: Parameters are given as initial capitals when spelled out, and are given as all capitals when abbreviated. Examples are Prefetch Enable (PE), and Cache Enable (CE). • Hexadecimal Notation: The hexadecimal notation is given...

General Description 2-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! &# The Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drives include the following key features: General • Formatted storage capacity of 20.4 GB (1 disk, 1 heads), 40.0 GB (1 disks, 2 heads), 60.0 (2 disks, 3 heads) and 80....

Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-1 % This chapter explains how to unpack, configure, mount, and connect the Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drive prior to operation. It also explains how to start up and operate the drive. ! 2 The Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives are sh...

Installation 3-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! & 1. Open the shipping container and remove the packing assembly that contains the drive. 2. Remove the drive from the packing assembly. 3. When you are ready to install the drive, remove it from the ESD bag. Figure 3-2 shows the packi...

Installation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-3 Drive Packing Assembly of a Polypropylene 20-Pack Container Note: The 20-pack container should be shipped in the same way it was received from Maxtor. When individual drives are shipped from the 20-pack container then it should be appropriat...

Installation 3-4 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! % The configuration of a Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drive depends on the host system in which it is to be installed. This section describes the hardware options that you must take into account prior to installation...

Installation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-5 The configuration of the following four jumpers controls the drive’s modes of operation: • CS – Cable Select • DS – Drive Select • PK– Jumper Parking Position (Slave mode) • AC– Alternate Capacity The AT PCB has two jumper locations provided...

Installation 3-6 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT Once you install the CS jumper, the drive is configured as a Master or Slave by the state of the Cable Select signal: pin 28 of the ATA bus connector. Please note that pin 28 is a vendor-specific pin that Maxtor is using for a specific purpo...

Installation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-7 !! )./-+45 For user capacities below 66,055,248 sectors (32 GB), inserting the AC jumper limits the Number of Cylinders field to a value of 4,092, as reported in IDENTIFY DEVICE data word 1. This allows software drivers to determine that the...

Installation 3-8 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! There are two ways you can configure a system to allow the Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives to communicate over the ATA bus of an IBM or IBM-compatible PC: 1. Connect the drive to a 40-pin ATA bus connector (if available) on the motherboar...

Installation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-9 ! $ Drive mounting orientation, clearance, and ventilation requirements are described in the following subsections. !! -.-*. The mounting holes on the Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drives allow the drive to be mounted i...

Installation 3-10 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ( Mounting Screw Clearance for the Maxtor D540X-4K Hard Disk Drives !" The PCB is very close to the mounting holes. Do not exceed the specified length for the mounting screws. The specified screw length allows full use of the mounting h...

Installation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-11 !! )./ Clearance from the drive to any other surface (except mounting surfaces) must be a minimum of 1.25 mm (0.05 inches). !! $.-)-*. The Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drives operate without a cooling fan, provided th...

Installation 3-14 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT -(-- 78/7&9 Use a 40-pin ribbon cable to connect the drive to the board. See Figure 3-10. To connect the drive to the board: 1. Insert the 40-pin cable connector into the mating connector of the adapter board. Make sure that pin 1 of th...

Installation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3-15 Completing the Drive Installation

Installation 3-16 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT !A 2$ !A! @;'3+1- Older BIOS that only support Int 13 commands for accessing ATA drives through DOS based operating systems will be limited to use only 1024 cylinders. This will reduce the effective capacity of the drive to 528 Mbytes. When...

Installation 3-18 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT % Logical Addressing Format Note: *Capacity may be restricted to 8.4 GB (or less) due to system BIOS limitations. Check with your system manufacturer to de-termine if your BIOS supports LBA Mode for hard drives greater than 8.4 GB. Default ...

Specifications 4-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 1. Disk to read buffer transfer rate is zone-dependent, instantaneous 2. Refer to Section 4.14, “DISK ERRORS” for details on error rate definitions. Recording: Recording technology Multiple Zone Multiple Zone Multiple Zone Multiple Zone Ma...

Specifications Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 4-3 1. Spindle speed is 5388 RPM +/- 0.1%. 2. Disk to read buffer transfer rate is zone-dependent, instantaneous 3. Refer to Section 4.14, “DISK ERRORS” for details on error rate definitions. 4. CSS specifications assumes a duty cycle of one p...

Specifications 4-4 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! # At the factory, the Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drives receive a low-level format that creates the actual tracks and sectors on the drive. Table 4-2 shows the capacity resulting from this process. Formatting don...

Specifications Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 4-5 ! Table 4-3 illustrates the timing specifications of the Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives. %# Timing Specifications 1. Nominal conditions are as follows: •Nominal temperature 77°F (25°C) •Nominal supply voltages (12.0V, 5.0V) •No applied s...

Specifications 4-6 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 7. Standby is the condition at which the microprocessor is powered, but not the HDA. When the host sends the drive a shutdown command, the drive parks the heads away from the data zone, and spins down to a complete stop. 8. After this time...

Specifications Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 4-7 !! *<B(-,.1 Table 4-5 lists the voltages and typical average corresponding currents for the various modes of operation of the Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives. %#$ Typical Power and Current Consumption 1. Current is rms except for start...

Specifications 4-8 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3. Idle mode is in effect when the drive is not reading, writing, seeking, or executing any commands. A portion of the R/W circuitry is powered down, the motor is up to speed and the Drive Ready condition exists. 4. Maximum seeking is defi...

Specifications Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 4-9 !? Height: 1.0 in.(25.4 mm) Width: 4.0 in.(101.6 mm) Depth: 5.75 in.(146.1 mm) Weight: Maxtor D540X-4K 40.0 GB AT (2-Disk) 1.3 lb !@ $ Table 4-7 summarizes the environmental specifications of the Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives. %#0 Envir...

Specifications 4-10 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT !A &$ The Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drives can withstand levels of shock and vibration applied to any of its three mutually perpendicular axes, or principal base axis, as specified in Table 4-8. A functioning...

Specifications Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 4-11 ! : $ Before handling the Maxtor hard disk drive some precautions must to be taken to ensure that the drive is not damaged. Use both hands while handling the drive and hold the drive by its edges. Maxtor drives are designed to withstand n...

Specifications 4-12 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! # 5 Volts/meter over a range of 10 KHz to 1 GHz. ! 0.5 g-mm maximum (This is approximately equivalent to 0.05 g emitted vibrations) ! & Table 4-9 provides the error rates for the Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives. %#1 Error Rates 1. ...

Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 5-1 ' $" $!$!" This chapter describes the operation of Maxtor D540X-4K AT hard disk drives’ functional subsystems. It is intended as a guide to the operation of the drive, rather than a detailed theory of operation. ! : ;&$ This section describes...

Basic Principles of Operation 5-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT $ Maxtor D540X-4K AT Hard Disk Drive Exploded View

Basic Principles of Operation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 5-3 ! ! 11-.'11,3)+ A single-piece, e-coated, aluminum-alloy base casting provides a mounting surface for the drive mechanism and PCB. The base casting also acts as the flange for the DC motor assembly. To provide a contaminatio...

Basic Principles of Operation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 5-5 ! !? --)-*. The Maxtor D540X-4K AT hard disk drives are Winchester-type drives. The heads fly very close to the media surface. Therefore, it is essential that the air circulating within the drive be kept free of particles. M...

Basic Principles of Operation Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 5-7 !! (88*.*)) The Buffer Controller supports a 1.75 MB buffer. The 16-bit width implementation provides a 60 MB/s maximum buffer bandwidth. This increased bandwidth allows the µProcessor to have direct access to the buffer, el...

Basic Principles of Operation 5-12 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT $-#-- @>>7& In the ID-less environment, the drive’s track and cylinder skewing will be based in unit of wedges instead of the traditional sectors. The integrated µprocessor, disk controller and ATA interface conta...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ! The Maxtor D540X-4K hard disk drives allow their host systems to address the full set of command and control registers as specified in ATA/ATAPI-6 section 7. ! !! .)( The µProcessor, Disk Controller, and ATA Interface...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-5 !!A #$.8*,-*. 3); Identify Device Parameters %*0 -1 1/--*. $)( 0 1514-8765-3210 General configuration bit-significant information:0 = ATA deviceRetiredRemovable media deviceNot removable controller and/or deviceRetiredR...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-8 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT determined from the information returned from the IDENTIFY DEVICE command. Where the entry is none, the default setting must be determined by other analytical means or by asking a trusted human source. The last column s...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-9 3); READ DEFECT LIST LENGTH Command Bytes " Registers 1F2h through 1F5h must contain the exact values shown. These values function as a key. The drive issues the message ILLEGAL COMMAND if the bytes are not entered ...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-10 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3); READ DEFECT LIST Command Bytes " Registers 1F2h and 1F3h must contain the transfer length that is appropriate for the specific product, and 1F4h and 1F5h must contain the exact values shown. These values functi...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-11 3); DEFECT LIST DATA FORMAT 3); DEFECT ENTRY DATA FORMAT " Bytes 4 – 7 will be set to FFh for bad track entries. Configuration In addition to the SET FEATURES command, the Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT ...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-12 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT *-$-- ) &!".) !" The READ CONFIGURATION command displays the configuration of the drive. Like the SET CONFIGURATION command, this command is secured to prevent accidentally accessing it. To access the READ ...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-13 *-$-- !".) !" The SET CONFIGURATION command is secured to prevent accessing it accidentally. To access the SET CONFIGURATION command, you must write the pattern shown in Table 6-8 to the Command Block Registers...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-14 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT " In Table 6-9:Registers 1F2h through 1F5h must contain the exact values shown above. These values function as a key. The drive responds by setting the ABRT bit in the Error register if the key is not entered corre...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-15 CE – Cache Enable (Byte 32, Bit 0): When set to 1, this bit indicates that the drive will activate caching on all READ commands. With the CE bit set to 0, the drive will disable caching and use the RAM only as a transf...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-16 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT Drive Parameters WCE – Write Cache Enable (Byte 39, Bit 2): When this bit is set to1, the Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT hard disk drives enable the Write Cache. This indicates that the drive returns GOOD st...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-17 PREREQUISITES - DRDY set equal to one. SMART enabled. DESCRIPTION - This command returns the device’s attribute thresholds to the host. Upon receipt of this command from the host, the device sets BSY, reads the attribu...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-18 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 3); Individual Threshold Data Structure 3); Device SMART Data Structure The attribute ID numbers and their definitions are vendor specific. Any non-zero value in the attribute ID number indicates an active attribute. V...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-19 Status flag • Bit 0 -Pre-failure/advisory - If the value of this bit equals zero, an attribute value less than or equal to its corresponding attribute threshold indicates an advisory condition where the usage or age of...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-20 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT NORMAL OUTPUTS - If the device has not detected a threshold exceeded condition, the device sets the Cylinder Low register to 4Fh and the Cylinder High register to C2h. If the device has detected a threshold exceeded co...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT 6-21 NORMAL OUTPUTS - None ERROR OUTPUTS - If the device does not support this command, if SMART is disabled or if the values in the Features, Cylinder Low or Cylinder High registers are invalid, an Aborted command error is...

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 6-22 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT !! 7-/*.8-'(-*.7)+( The drives support the following commands from the optional Device Configuration Overlay feature set: • DEVICE CONFIGURATION FREEZE LOCK • DEVICE CONFIGURATION IDENTIFY • DEVICE CONFIGURATION RESTOR...

Glossary G-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.0/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT BPI – Abbreviation for bits per inch. A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium. Flux changes per inch is also a term commonly used in describing storage density on a magnetic surface. BUFFER – An area of RAM reserved fo...

Index I-2 Maxtor D540X-4K 20.4/40.0/60.0/80.0 GB AT IDE 2-4, 3-8 IDE interface controller 5-8 IDE-bus interface 6-1 IDE-bus interface connector 3-12 Idle 4-7 input power connections 3-12 interface, IDE-bus 6-1 6 jumper configurations 3-5 jumper locations 3-4 jumper options 3-5 landing zone 5-5 logic...