SEAGATE ST19171FC - Manuals

Page 2 - Contents; Seagate

Contents Preface ........................................................................................ 1Electrostatic discharge protection ............................................... 1Important safety information and precautions ............................. 2Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise .......

Page 3 - Preface; Electrostatic discharge protection; Caution. Removal of circuit boards by personnel not perform-

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 1 Preface This manual contains information for users of the SeagateST19171FC (Fibre Channel interface) Barracuda disc drives. Itprovides technical support information, performance specifica-tions, installation instructions, and a troubleshooting section.Addit...

Page 4 - Important safety information and precautions; drive to ensure proper cooling of drive components.

2 Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A any grounded metal assembly. As a general rule, rememberthat you and the drive electronics must all be grounded toavoid potentially damaging static discharges. • Do not remove any circuit boards from the drive. • Never use an ohmmeter on any circuit boards....

Page 6 - Beim Testen des Laufwerks auf dem Prüftisch ist

4 Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A subsystem designers are responsible for meeting these condi-tions of acceptability in obtaining safety-regulatory agency com-pliance in their end-use products and for certifying whererequired by law. A necessary part of meeting safety require-ments is the p...

Page 10 - Technical support services; CompuServe forum; Acrobat; format which you can download and view

8 Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Technical support services Seagate Technology provides technical support literature anddiagnostic utilities to authorized distributors. Please contact yourdealer for technical support and installation troubleshooting.Product technical support is available f...

Page 12 - General description; Barracuda 9FC disc drive

10 Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A General description Barracuda 9FC disc drives are high-speed, random-access digi-tal-data storage devices designed to be used within a FibreChannel host system. The drive is a component for installation in an enclosuredesigned for the drive. The disc drive...

Page 13 - Characteristics

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 11 Characteristics ST19171FC Interface Fibre Channel Capacity Unformatted 11.7 Gbytes Formatted 9.1 Gbytes Recording Cylinders (user) 5,273 Read/write data heads 20 Avg bytes/track (unformatted) 102,000 Seek time Average read 8.0 msec Average write 9.5 msec D...

Page 14 - Providing adequate cooling

12 Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Installing the ST19171FC drive To install a ST19171FC drive, simply plug the drive directly intoyour system’s Fibre Channel backpanel 40-pin single connectorattachment (FC-SCA). There are no jumpers or terminators onthe drive, and power is supplied through...

Page 15 - Kühlung des Systems

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 13 Figure 2 shows one design approach with one or more fans usedto generate air flow. The air-flow pattern can be created by thefans either pushing or drawing air. The overall flow pattern mustbe directed from side to side in most FC-SCA systems. Kühlung des ...

Page 19 - Keep-out zone for any components on backplane.

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 17 5.7604.0101.026 .620 4.000 .250 1.7503.7502.3701.7500.181 1.6461.625.1215.1215 146.304101.854 26.06 0 15.748 101.60 0 6.35 0 44.45 95.25 0 60.20 0 44.45 0 4.59 0 41.80 0 41.28 0 3.08 0 3.08 0 AB CD E F G H J K L M N P R maxmaxmaxref ± +– ± ± ± ± +–max ± ma...

Page 20 - Warning. Formatting a drive erases all user data. Be sure that; Enabling write cache

18 Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Inserting the drive Most systems provide a way to insert the drive using a carrier ortray which allows the drive to be hot-plugged into the system’sFibre Channel 40-pin single connector attachment (FC-SCA).Refer to your system documentation about the metho...

Page 21 - Warning. Information can be lost if you enable write cache and; Connecting remote LEDs

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 19 Warning. Information can be lost if you enable write cache and there is a system failure (for example, power failure)before the data has actually been physically written tothe disc. OEM drives are shipped with write cache disabled by default toenhance data...

Page 23 - FC-SCA pin descriptions; Signal name

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 21 Table 1: FC-SCA pin descriptions Pin/contact Signal name Signal type 1* –EN bypass port A TTL output 2* 12 Volts 3* 12 Volts 4* 12 Volts 5* Reserved NC 6* Reserved NC 7* Active LED out Open collector out 8* Reserved NC 9* RMT_start TTL input 10* DLYD_start...

Page 25 - Troubleshooting; General installation troubleshooting; • Check the physical attachment. Ensure that the drive is

Barracuda 9FC Installation Guide, Rev. A 23 Troubleshooting Before calling Seagate Technical Support, please read the pos-sibilities discussed below. The suggestions presented here willresolve the majority of installation problems. General installation troubleshooting • Check system compatibility. T...