Page 2 - Contents
Contents Preface ..................................................................................... 1Electrostatic discharge protection ............................................ 2Important safety information and precautions .......................... 3Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise ................
Page 3 - Preface; Additional information is available in the; Barracuda 50 Product; representative if you need to order this publication.
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 1 Preface This manual contains handling information, support services,performance specifications, and installation information forSeagate® Barracuda 50 SCSI disc drives. Although you can jump ahead to the installation instructions toget up and running quickly,...
Page 4 - Handling precautions; Always handle the drive by its edges or frame.; Electrostatic discharge protection
2 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Handling precautions • Disc drives are fragile. Do not drop or jar the drive. Use apadded surface during installation to avoid damaging thedrive. • Keep the drive in its antistatic bag until you are ready toinstall it. • Protect the drive from static dischar...
Page 5 - Important safety information and precautions
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 3 as some resistors and capacitors, may be damaged or degradedby exposure to static electricity. Electrostatic damage to electronic devices may be caused by thedirect discharge of a charged conductor or by exposure to thestatic fields surrounding charged objec...
Page 10 - Regulatory agency compliance; • 486, Pentium, and PowerPC microprocessors
8 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Regulatory agency compliance Electromagnetic susceptibilityAs a component assembly, the drive is not required to meet anysusceptibility performance requirements. It is the responsibility ofthose integrating the drive within their systems to perform thosetest...
Page 12 - General description; Barracuda 50 family drive (LW model shown); guidelines for a properly designed enclosure.
10 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A General description Barracuda 50 SCSI disc drives are high-speed, random-accessdigital-data storage devices capable of operating in single-ended(SE) or low voltage differential (LVD) modes. This multimode capability allows you to use this drive in systemsth...
Page 13 - Single-ended and low voltage differential modes; Note. To operate at the Ultra2 SCSI rates in LVD mode, all; • Faster transfer rates.
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 11 Single-ended and low voltage differential modes This drive incorporates two different transceivers to allow you touse it in systems which use single-ended (SE) drivers andreceivers, or in low voltage differential (LVD) capable systemswhich use LVD drivers a...
Page 14 - SE and LVD bus configurations; LVD
12 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Data bus widths These drives have a wide (16-bit) SCSI data bus. You can usethese drives on a non-wide (8-bit) data bus if you provide propertermination to the upper eight data lines. This is often referred toas providing “high-9 termination” (the other bit...
Page 16 - Suggested air flow; Empfohlener Luftstromverlauf
14 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A . Figure 2. Suggested air flow Abbildung 2. Empfohlener Luftstromverlauf Above unit Under unit Note. Air flows in the direction shown (back to front) or in reverse direction (front to back) Above unit Under unit Note. Air flows in the direction shown or in ...
Page 17 - Characteristics
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 15 Characteristics ST150176LW/LC Interface Ultra2 SCSI 1 Capacity Formatted (Gbytes) 2 50.0 Recording Cylinders (user)Read/write data headsAvg bytes/track 12,02422189.28 Access time 3 Average read (msec)Average write (msec) 7.68.4 Disc rotation RPMAverage late...
Page 19 - How to install the drive; ST150176LC (use the installation steps beginning on page 30).
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 17 How to install the drive This installation guide provides step-by-step instructions to makeyour drive installation as easy as possible. Follow the installationsteps listed for your drive model as listed below: ST150176LW (use the installation steps beginnin...
Page 21 - Configure termination.
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 19 2. Configure termination. If you are installing the drive in a system that has other SCSIdevices installed, terminate only the end devices on theSCSI bus. Figure 4 shows the three most common termination configu-rations. ST150176LW drives do not have intern...
Page 22 - SCSI bus termination
20 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 4. SCSI bus termination Internal SCSI device Internal SCSI device Controller External SCSI device External SCSI device External SCSIcable Internal SCSI cable Terminate Internal SCSI device Internal SCSI device Controller Internal SCSI cable Terminate...
Page 26 - Additional jumper options
24 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 7. Additional jumper options SE DS M E W P PD RES RES TP J2 Pin 1 Pin 2 Enable parity check of SCSI bus (default). Disable parity check. Reserved Parity Check option Write protect = Off (enables writing – default). Write protect = On (disables writin...
Page 28 - Connecting cables to the drive
26 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 8. Connecting cables to the drive Power Cable
Page 29 - Multiple-drive connection to host adapter
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 27 [1] “X” means up to 15 devices on the SCSI bus.[2] External terminator. Used only on end “LW” drive. Use only SPI-2- compliant active LVD terminators on SCSI Ultra2 buses. Figure 9. Multiple-drive connection to host adapter Host Adapter PCB Pin 1 (check you...
Page 31 - Additional connector on ST150176LW drives; Figure 11. Alternate SCSI ID select and LED connection
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 29 Additional connector on ST150176LW drives ST150176LW drives have a connector located between theSCSI I/O connector and the DC power connector to allow you toset the SCSI ID and connect LEDs from the back of the drive.You are not required to use this connect...
Page 36 - Figure 13. Additional jumper options
34 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 13. Additional jumper options SE DS M E W P PD RES RES TP J2 Pin 1 Pin 2 Enable parity check of SCSI bus (default). Disable parity check. Reserved Parity Check option Write protect = Off (enables writing – default). Write protect = On (disables writi...
Page 37 - Mount the drive in the host system.; Connector
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 35 4. Mount the drive in the host system. To mount an “LC” drive, plug the drive into the system’s sin-gle connector attachment (SCA) position on the system’sbackplane. The SCA connector on the drive contains inter-face and power functions, so it does not requ...
Page 39 - Important information about formatting the drive
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 37 5. Format the drive. Important information about formatting the drive • The drive has been low level formatted at the factory.You do not need to perform another low level format onthis drive unless you decide to perform certain diagnos-tics through the host...
Page 40 - prompt, type fdisk and press; ENTER
38 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Note. Hardware platform, operating system, and hostadapter variations can limit access to the full capac-ity of this and other high capacity drives. Refer toyour system, host adapter, or drive utility documen-tation for detailed instructions. DOS, Windows 3...
Page 41 - active; Drive formatting
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 39 the drive you want to partition. Make sure that your newdrive is selected. If you accidently repartition your oldhard drive, you will arase all data on the drive. d. Press 1 to select “Create DOS partition or logical DOS drive” and then press the ENTER key....
Page 43 - Seagate Technology support services; Online Services; Internet; or; SeaBOARD; is a computer bulletin board system that contains; Automated Services; SeaFONE
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 41 Seagate Technology support services Online Services Internet F o r o n l i n e i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t S e a g a t e p r o d u c t s , v i s i twww.seagate.com or e-mail your disc or tape questions to: Presales Support: Disc: http://www.seagate.com/...
Page 44 - SeaFAX; is Seagate's automated FAX delivery system. Using a; Presales Support; Seagate Express; Technical Support; is a
42 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A phone numbers, commonly asked questions, troubleshootingtips and specifications for disc drives and tape drives 24 hoursdaily. International callers can reach this service by dialing +1-405-936-1234. SeaFAX ® is Seagate's automated FAX delivery system. Usin...
Page 45 - USA/Canada/Latin America Support Services
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 43 specialist from 8:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. and 1:30 P.M. to 6:00P.M. (central time) Monday through Friday. Customer Service (CSO) Warranty Repair Seagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate drives.Seagate direct OEM, Distribution and System Integrato...
Page 46 - MA Informatica; European Support Services; Call Center
44 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A Warranty Repair USA/Canada 1-800-468-3472 FAX: +1-405-949-6740 Latin America +1-405-949-7758 FAX: +1-405-949-6738 Authorized Service Centers Brazil MA Informatica +55-21-516-6649 FAX: +55-21-516-5280 Canada Memofix +1-905-660-4936 FAX: +1-905-660-4951 Adtec...
Page 47 - Africa/Middle East Support Services
Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A 45 Norway 800-113 91 Poland 00 800-311 12 38 Spain 900-98 31 24 Sweden 0 207 90 073 Switzerland 0 800-83 84 11 Turkey 00 800-31 92 91 40 United Kingdom 0 800-783 5177 SeaBOARD Germany +49-89-1409331 Fax Services—All European Countries Presales/Technical Suppor...
Page 48 - Australia; Warranty Repair; Japan
46 Barracuda 50 Installation Guide, Rev. A SeaFAX Australia +61-2-9756-5170 Warranty Repair Japan +81-3-5462-2904 FAX: +81-3-5462-2979 Asia/Pacific and +65-485-3595 FAX: +65-488-7503 Australia