SEAGATE ST3146756FC (FDE) - Manuals

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 1 1.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Cheetah ® 15K.6 FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives. Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifi-cations to the extent described in this manual...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 3 2.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation The drive has been developed as a system peripheral to the highest standards of design and construction. The drive depends upon its host equipment to provide adequate power and environment in order to achi...

4 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 2.1.2 Electromagnetic compliance Seagate uses an independent laboratory to confirm compliance with the directives/standards for CE Marking and C-Tick Marking. The drive was tested in a representative system for typical applications. The selected sys-tem repr...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5 tory analytical validation testing, and an internal auditing process to ensure that all standard operating procedures are complied with. 2.3 Reference documents ANSI Fibre Channel Documents X3.230-1994 FC Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) X3.297.1997 ...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 7 3.0 General description Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems includ-ing engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives support 4-Gbit Fibre C...

8 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 3.1 Standard features Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives have the following standard features: • 4-Gbit Fibre Channel interface • Integrated dual port FC-AL controller • Concurrent dual port transfers • Support for FC arbitrated loop, private and public attachment • Di...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9 3.2 Media description The media used on the drive has an aluminum substrate coated with a thin film magnetic material, overcoated with a proprietary protective layer for improved durability and environmental protection. 3.3 Performance • Programmable multi-s...

10 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 3.6 Factory-installed options You may order the following items which are incorporated at the manufacturing facility during production or packaged before shipping. Some of the options available are (not an exhaustive list of possible options): • Other capac...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 11 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics ST3450856FC ST3300656FC ST3146356FC ST3450056FC ST3300056FC...

12 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 4.2.2 Format command execution time (minutes) When changing sector sizes, the format times shown below may need to be increased by 30 minutes. Note. There is no significant difference in the format time between FDE and non-FDE models of the same capacity. 4...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 13 4.4 Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control The drive provides a prefetch (read look-ahead) and multi-segmented cache control algorithms that in many cases can enhance system performance. Cache refers to the drive buffer storage space when it is used in cach...

14 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C are to be written are already stored in the cache from a previous read or write command. If there are, the respective cache segments are cleared. The new data is cached for subsequent Read commands. If the number of write data logical blocks exceed the size...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 15 5.0 Reliability specifications The following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operational interface, including all inter-face timings, power supply voltages, environmental requirements and drive mounting constraints. 5.1 Error rates ...

16 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5.1.3 Seek errors A seek error is defined as a failure of the drive to position the heads to the addressed track. After detecting an initial seek error, the drive automatically performs an error recovery process. If the error recovery process fails, a seek ...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 17 present, loop operation may continue. If the bypass circuit is not present, loop operation will be halted while the self test of the FC interface runs. When the self test completes successfully, the control line to the bypass circuit is disabled and the dri...

18 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C Determining rate S.M.A.R.T. monitors the rate at which errors occur and signals a predictive failure if the rate of degraded errors increases to an unacceptable level. To determine rate, error events are logged and compared to the number of total operations...

20 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5.2.6.2.3 Short and extended tests DST has two testing options: 1. short 2. extended These testing options are described in the following two subsections. Each test consists of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and a read/ver...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 23 6.0 Physical/electrical specifications This section provides information relating to the physical and electrical characteristics of the drive. 6.1 AC power requirements None. 6.2 DC power requirements The voltage and current requirements for a single drive ...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 27 Motor command. [5] See paragraph 6.2.1, "Conducted noise immunity." Specified voltage tolerance includes ripple, noise, and transient response. [6] Operating condition is defined as random 8 block reads at 330 I/Os per second for ST3450856FC/ST34500...

34 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 6.3 Power dissipation 450GB models Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 12.09 watts (41.25 BTUs per hour). To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 7). ...

36 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 146GB models Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 9.51 watts (32.45 BTUs per hour). To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 7). Locate the typical I/O ...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 37 b. Non-operating –40° to 158°F (–40° to 70°C) package ambient with a maximum gradient of 36°F (20°C) per hour. This specification assumes that the drive is packaged in the shipping container designed by Seagate for use with drive. Figure 10. Locations of th...

38 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 6.4.4 Shock and vibration Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measured directly on the drive chassis. If the drive is installed in an enclosure to which the stated shock and/or vibration criteria is applied, resonances may occur intern...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 39 Figure 11. Recommended mounting Z Y X Z Y X

40 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 6.4.4.2 Vibration a. Operating—normal The drive as installed for normal operation, shall comply with the complete specified performance while subjected to continuous vibration not exceeding 10–500 Hz @ 0.5 G (zero to peak) Vibration may be applied in the X,...

42 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 6.5 Mechanical specifications The following nominal dimensions are exclusive of the decorative front panel accessory. However, dimensions of the front panel are shown in figure below. Refer to Figure 12 for detailed mounting configuration dimensions. See Se...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 43 7.0 Defect and error management Seagate continues to use innovative technologies to manage defects and errors. These technologies are designed to increase data integrity, perform drive self-maintenance, and validate proper drive operation. SCSI defect and e...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 45 [1] These values are subject to change. Setting these retry counts to a value below the default setting could result in an increased unrecovered error rate which may exceed the value given in this product manual. A setting of zero (0) will result in the dri...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 47 8.0 Installation Cheetah 15K.6 FC disc drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or termi-nators on the drive. Simply plug the drive into the host’s 40-pin Fibre Channel backpanel connector (FC-SCA) — no cables are requi...

48 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C If forced air is necessary, possible air-flow patterns are shown in Figure 13. The air-flow patterns are created by fans either forcing or drawing air as shown in the illustrations. Conduction, convection, or other forced air-flow patterns are acceptable as...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 51 9.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives. Addi-tional information is provided in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 100293070). 9.1 FC-AL features This sect...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 53 9.1.4 Fibre Channel port login Table 12 identifies the required content of the N_Port Login (PLOGI) payload from an initiator. Table 12: N_Port login (PLOGI) payload Bytes 0-15 03 00 00 00 09 09 BB BB CF XX FS FS XX XX XX XX Common 16-31 XX XX XX XX PN PN P...

54 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9.1.5 Fibre Channel port login accept Table 13 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values. 9.1.6 Fibre Channel Process Login Table 14 lists the process login payload data. XX Indicates fields that are not used. Table 13: N_Port Login Accept (ACC) pay...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 55 9.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Login Accept Table 15 lists Cheetah 15K.6 FC process login accept payload data. 9.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric login Table 16 lists the fabric login payload from the drive. Table 15: Process Login Accept (ACC) payload Bytes 0-15 02 1...

56 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept login Table 17 lists the required content of the Fabric Login Accept (ACC) payload from the fabric. Table 17: Fabric Login Accept (ACC) payload Bytes 0-15 02 00 00 00 09 09 BB BB CF XX FS FS R_ A_ T0 V_ Common 16-31 E_ D_ T...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 57 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options Table 18 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives. 9.2 Dual port support Cheetah 15K.6 FC drives have two independent FC-AL ports. These ports may be connected on independent loops or on the s...

58 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C Table 19: Supported commands Command code Supported (Y/N) [4] Command name Executable state of standard SCSI commands in the presence of LBA banding (applies to FDE models only) Affects entire Drive (Y/N) User Data Accessed (Y/N) Affected LBA Unlocked ReadL...

62 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C [3] Reference Mode Sense command 1Ah for mode pages supported. [4] Y = Yes. Command is supported. N = No. Command is not supported. A = Support is available on special request. 9.3.1 Inquiry data Table 20 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 67 9.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 24 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is supported. An “N” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is not supported...

68 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9.5 FC-AL physical interface Figure 14 shows the location of the J1 Fibre Channel single connection attachment (FC-SCA). Figure 16 pro-vides the dimensions of the FC-SCA connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provide...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 69 9.5.2 Connector requirements The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in Figure 16. Figure 16. FC-AL SCA device connector dimensions 9.5.3 Electrical description Fibre Channel drives use the FC-SCA connector for: • DC power• FC-AL interface• Drive sele...

70 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C Table 27: FC-SCA pin descriptions *Short pins in mating backpanel connector. [1] This pin may be connected to external logic to detect the presence of the drive. The drive connects this pin to the common ground. [2] Pins 9, 10, 17, 18, and 39 are option sel...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 71 9.5.6 Power Power is supplied through the FC-SCA with support for +5 volts and +12 volts. All of the voltage pins in the drive connector are the same length. Four 12 volt pins provide +12 volt power to the drive. The current return for the +12 volt power su...

72 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9.5.8 Active LED Out The Active LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 28. The Active LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +5 volt supply through an appropriate current limit...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 73 9.5.11 SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID lines The SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID lines determine drive address, and, optionally, for an Enclosure Services Inter-face. When the Parallel ESI line is high, the enclosure backpanel must provide address information on the SEL line...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 75 9.5.12 Device control codes The drive inputs a Device Control Code on the DEV_CTRL_CODE lines at power up to determine the link rate on the Fibre Channel ports. Both ports run at the same rate. If the backpanel does not connect to these lines, the drive has...

76 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9.6.2 LED driver signals Fault and Active LED signals are located in the FC-SCA connector (J1). See Table 33 for the output character-istics of the LED drive signals. 9.6.3 FC Differential output The serial output signal voltage characteristics are provided...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 79 10.0 Seagate Technology support services Internet For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit www.seagate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours daily by email for your questions. Presales Support: [email protected] Technical Su...

80 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C Customer Service Operations Warranty Service Seagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate products. Seagate distributors, OEMs and other direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Service Operations (CSO) representative for warranty-rel...

Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 81 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 71 3rd party reserve command 61 5 volt pins 71 A Abort Sequence (ABTS) 51 abort task set function 52 AC coupling 70 AC power requirements 23 ACA active status 67 ACA active, faulted initiator status 67 Accept (ACC) 51 acoustics 4...

86 Cheetah 15K.6 FC Product Manual, Rev. C shock 37 , 38 and vibration 37 shock mount 49 signal characteristics 75 LED driver 76 single-unit shipping pack kit 10 SMART 9 , 17 SMP = 1 in Mode Select command 67 SO 53 , 56 spindle brake 8 Stacked connection req. 53 , 56 standards 3 Start unit/stop unit...