Page 3 - Table of Contents
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 3 Table of Contents GENERAL................................................................................................................................................. 9 1 I NTRODUCTION ...................................................................................
Page 5 - List of Figures
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 5 14.28 Security Erase Prepare (F3h) ........................................................................................... 128 14.29 Security Erase Unit (F4h) ................................................................................................. 129 14.3...
Page 9 - Introduction; Abbreviations
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 9 General 1 Introduction This document describes the specifications of the HITACHI Travelstar 5K320, a 2.5-inch hard disk drive with Serial ATA interface: Drive name Model Number Max data transfer rate (Gbps) Capacity (GB) Height (mm) Rotation speed (rpm) HTS543232L9A300...
Page 12 - References; General caution
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 12 1.2 References Serial ATA International Organization : Serial ATA Revision 2.6 1.3 General caution Do not apply force to the top cover (See figure below). Do not cover the breathing hole on the top cover (See figure below). Do not touch the interface connector pins or...
Page 13 - Outline of the drive
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 13 2 Outline of the drive 2.5-inch, 9.5-mm Height Perpendicular Recording Formatted capacities of 320GB, 250GB, 160GB,120GB and 80GB(512 bytes/sector) SATA Interface conforming to Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.6(15-February-2007) Integrated...
Page 14 - Part 1 Functional Specification
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 14 Part 1 Functional Specification
Page 15 - Fixed disk subsystem description; Control Electronics
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 15 3 Fixed disk subsystem description 3.1 Control Electronics The control electronics works with the following functions: SATA Interface Protocol Embedded Sector Servo No-ID (TM) formatting Multizone recording Code: 100/102 bit parity (199/200 RC Modulatio...
Page 16 - Fixed disk characteristics; Formatted capacity by model number
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 16 4 Fixed disk characteristics 4.1 Formatted capacity by model number Description HTS543232L9A300 HTS543232L9SA00 HTS543225L9A300 HTS543225L9SA00 Physical Layout Bytes per Sector 512 512 Number of Heads 4 4 / 3 Number of Disks 2 2 Logical Layout Number of Heads 16 16 Nu...
Page 18 - Performance characteristics; Command overhead
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 18 4.4 Performance characteristics Drive performance is characterized by the following parameters: Command Overhead Mechanical Positioning Seek Time Latency Data Transfer Speed Buffering Operation (Look ahead/Write Cache) Note: All the above parameters ...
Page 19 - Mechanical positioning; Full stroke seek; Single track seek time (without command overhead, including; Average latency
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 19 4.4.2 Mechanical positioning 4.4.2.1 Average seek time (including settling) Command Type Typical (ms) Max. (ms) Read 12 14 Write 13 15 Table 5. Mechanical positioning performance Typical and Max. are defined throughout the performance specification as follows: Typical...
Page 20 - Drive ready time
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 20 4.4.2.5 Drive ready time Condition Typical (sec) Max. (sec) Power On To Ready 3.5 9.5 Table 9. Drive ready time Ready The condition in which the drive is able to perform a media access command (for example—read, write) immediately. Power On To Ready This includes the ...
Page 21 - Operating modes; Mode transition time; Operating mode at power on
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 21 4.4.3 Operating modes Operating mode Description Spin-Up Start up time period from spindle stop or power down. Seek Seek operation mode Write Write operation mode Read Read operation mode Performance idle The device is capable of responding immediately to media access...
Page 22 - Data integrity; Data loss on power off; Equipment status
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 22 5 Data integrity 5.1 Data loss on power off Data loss will not be caused by a power off during any operation except the write operation. A power off during a write operation causes the loss of any received or resident data that has not been written onto the disk...
Page 23 - Data buffer test; Nonrecovered write errors
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 23 5.5 Data buffer test The data buffer is tested at power on reset and when a drive self-test is requested by the host. The test consists of a write/read '00'x and 'ff'x pattern on all buffers. 5.6 Error recovery Errors occurring on the drive are handled by the error re...
Page 24 - ECC
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 24 5.8 ECC The 10 bit symbol non interleaved ECC processor provides user data verification and correction capability. The first 6 symbol of ECC are 4 check symbols for user data and the 2 symbol system ECC. The other 34 symbols are Read Solomon ECC. Hardware logic correc...
Page 25 - Specification; Environment; Temperature and humidity; Corrosion test
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 25 6 Specification 6.1 Environment 6.1.1 Temperature and humidity Operating conditions Temperature Relative humidity Maximum wet bulb temperature Maximum temperature gradient Altitude 5 to 55°C (See note below) 8 to 90% noncondensing 29.4°C noncondensing 20°C/hour –300 t...
Page 26 - Radiation noise; Conductive noise
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 26 6.1.3 Radiation noise The disk drive shall work without degradation of the soft error rate under the following magnetic flux density limits at the enclosure surface. Frequency (KHz) Limits (uT RMS) DC 1500 0-p 0 < Frequency =< 60 500 RMS 60 < Frequency =<1...
Page 27 - DC power requirements
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 27 6.2 DC power requirements Connection to the product should be made in a safety extra low voltage (SELV) circuits. The voltage specifications are applied at the power connector of the drive. Item Requirements Nominal supply +5 Volt dc Supply voltage –0.3 Volt to 6.0 Vo...
Page 28 - Power consumption efficiency
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 28 6.2.1 Power consumption efficiency Capacity 320GB 250GB 160GB 120GB 80GB Power Consumption Efficiency (Watts/GB) 0.0017 0.0022 0.0034 0.0046 0.0069 Table 15. Power consumption efficiency Note: Power consumption efficiency is calculated as Power Consumption of Low Powe...
Page 29 - Reliability; Data reliability
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 29 6.3 Reliability 6.3.1 Data reliability Probability of not recovering data is 1 in 10 14 bits read ECC implementation On-the-fly correction performed as a part of read channel function recovers up to 16 symbols of error in 1 sector (1 symbol is 10 bits). 6.3.2 Fa...
Page 30 - Preventive maintenance; Emergency unload
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 30 6.3.5 Preventive maintenance None. 6.3.6 Load/unload The product supports a minimum of 600,000 normal load/unloads. Load/unload is a functional mechanism of the hard disk drive. It is controlled by the drive micro code. Specifically, unloading of the heads is invoked ...
Page 31 - Test considerations
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 31 turned off, emergency unload occurs, as well as the problems cited in section 5.1, "Data loss by power off" and section 5.2, “Write Cache”. 6.3.6.4 Test considerations Start/stop testing is classically performed to verify head/disk durability. The heads do not...
Page 32 - Mechanical specifications; Physical dimensions and weight; Mounting hole locations
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 32 6.4 Mechanical specifications 6.4.1 Physical dimensions and weight The following figure lists the dimensions for the drive. Model Height (mm) Width (mm) Length (mm) Weight (gram) 320GB, 250GB models 9.5±0.2 69.85±0.25 100.2±0.25 102 Max 160GB, 120GB, 80GB models 9.5±0...
Page 33 - Connector description
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 33 6.4.3 Connector description Connector specifications are included in section 7.2, "Interface connector" . 6.4.4 Mounting orientation The drive will operate in all axes (six directions) and will stay within the specified error rates when tilted ±5 degrees from ...
Page 34 - Vibration and shock; Operating vibration; Random vibration
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 34 6.5 Vibration and shock All vibration and shock measurements in this section are for drives without mounting attachments for systems. The input level shall be applied to the normal drive mounting points. Vibration tests and shock tests are to be conducted by mounting ...
Page 35 - Nonoperating vibration; Operating shock; Nonoperating shock
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 35 6.5.2 Nonoperating vibration The disk drive withstands the following vibration levels without any loss or permanent damage. 6.5.2.1 Random vibration The test consists of a random vibration applied in each of three mutually perpendicular axes for a duration of 15 minut...
Page 36 - Acoustics; Sound power level; Discrete tone penalty
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 36 6.6 Acoustics 6.6.1 Sound power level The criteria of A-weighted sound power level are described below. Measurements are to be taken in accordance with ISO 7779. The mean of the sample of 40 drives is to be less than the typical value. Each drive is to be less than th...
Page 37 - Identification labels; Electromagnetic compatibility; CE Mark
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 37 6.7 Identification labels The following labels are affixed to every drive: A label which is placed on the top of the head disk assembly containing the statement "Made by Hitachi" or equivalent, part number A bar code label which is placed on the disk dri...
Page 38 - Safety; UL and CSA approval; Packaging
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 38 6.9 Safety 6.9.1 UL and CSA approval All models of the Travelstar 5K320 are qualified per UL60950-1:2003 6.9.2 IEC compliance All models of the Travelstar 5K320 comply with IEC 60950-1:2001. 6.9.3 German Safety Mark All models of the Travelstar 5K320 are approved by T...
Page 39 - Electrical interface specifications; Cabling
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 39 7 Electrical interface specifications 7.1 Cabling The maximum cable length from the host system to the hard disk drive plus circuit pattern length in the host system shall not exceed 1 meter. 7.2 Interface connector The figure below shows the physical pin location. Fi...
Page 40 - Signal definitions
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 40 7.3 Signal definitions The pin assignments of interface signals are listed as follows: No. Plug Connector pin definition Signal I/O S1 GND 2nd mate Gnd S2 A+ Differential signal A from Phy RX+ Input S3 A- RX- Input Signal S4 Gnd 2nd mate Gnd S5 B- Differential signal ...
Page 42 - Out
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 42 7.3.3 Out of band signaling Figure 4 shows the timing of COMRESET, COMINIT and COMWAKE . COMRESET/COMINIT t1 t2 t3 t4 COMWAKE PARAMETER DESCRIPTION Nominal (ns) T1 ALINE primitives 106.7 T2 Spacing 320 T3 ALIGN primitives 106.7 T4 Psacing 106.7 Figure 4. Parameter des...
Page 44 - Part 2 Interface Specification
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 44 - Part 2 Interface Specification
Page 45 - General; Terminology
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 45 - 8 General 8.1 Introduction This specification describes the host interface of HTS5432XXL9SA00 / HTS5432XXL9A300. The interface conforms to following Working Document of Information technology with certain limitations described in the chapter 9 “Deviations from Sta...
Page 46 - Deviations from Standard; Physical Interface
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 46 - 9 Deviations from Standard The device conforms to the referenced specifications, with deviations described below. The interface conforms to the Working Document of Information Technology, AT Attachment 8 – ATA/ATAPI Command Set (ATA/ATAPI8-ACS) Revision 3f dated 1...
Page 47 - Register naming convention; Command register
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 47 - 11.1 Register naming convention This specification uses the same naming conventions for the Command Block Registers as the ATA8-ACS standard. However, the register naming convention is different from that uses in the Serial ATA 2.6 specification. The following tab...
Page 48 - Device Register; Error Register; Features Register
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 48 - Bit Definitions SRST (RST) Software Reset. The device is held reset when RST=1. Setting RST=0 reenables the device.The host must set RST=1 and wait for at least 5 microseconds before setting RST=0, to ensure that the device recognizes the reset. -IEN Interrupt Ena...
Page 49 - LBA High Register; LBA Mid Register
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 49 - 11.7 LBA High Register This register contains Bits 16-23. At the end of the command, this register is updated to reflect the current LBA Bits 16-23. When 48-bit addressing commands are used, the “most recently written” content contains LBA Bits 16-23, and the “pre...
Page 51 - General Operation Descriptions; Reset Response; Register Initialization
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 51 - 12 General Operation Descriptions 12.1 Reset Response There are three types of reset in ATA as follows: Power On Reset (POR) The device executes a series of electrical circuitry diagnostics, spins up the HDA, tests speed and other mechanical parametric, and sets d...
Page 52 - Diagnostic and Reset considerations
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 52 - Register Default Value Error Diagnostic Code Sector Count 01h LBA Low 01h LBA Mid 00h LBA High 00h Device 00h Status 50h Alternate Status 50h Table 30 Default Register Values The meaning of the Error Register diagnostic codes resulting from power on, COMRESET or t...
Page 53 - Power-off considerations; Required power-off sequence
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 53 - 12.3 Power-off considerations 12.3.1 Load/Unload Load/Unload is a functional mechanism of the HDD. It is controlled by the drive microcode. Specifically, unloading of the heads is invoked by the commands: Command Response Standby UL -> Comp. Standby immediate U...
Page 54 - Sector Addressing Mode; Logical CHS Addressing Mode; Power Management Feature
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 54 - 12.4 Sector Addressing Mode All addressing of data sectors recorded on the device’s media is by a logical sector address. The logical CHS address for HTS5432XXL9SA00 / HTS5432XXL9A300 is different from the actual physical CHS location of the data sector on the dis...
Page 55 - Power Mode; Power Management Commands; Standby/Sleep command completion timing; Interface Capability for Power Modes
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 55 - 12.5.1 Power Mode Sleep Mode The lowest power consumption when the device is powered on occurs in Sleep Mode. When in sleep mode, the device requires a reset to be activated. Standby Mode The device interface is capable of accepting commands, but as the media may ...
Page 56 - Initial Power Mode at Power On; Performance Idle mode; Low Power Idle mode
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 56 - 12.5.6 Initial Power Mode at Power On After power on the device goes to IDLE mode or STANDBY mode depending on the setting of the Power Up in Standby Feature set 12.6 Advanced Power Management (Adaptive Battery Life Extender 3) Feature This feature provides power ...
Page 57 - Transition Time; Attributes
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 57 - 12.6.4 Transition Time The transition time is dynamically managed by users recent access pattern, instead of fixed times. The ABLE-3 algorithm monitors the interval between commands instead of the command frequency of ABLE-2. The algorithm supposes that next comma...
Page 58 - Attribute thresholds; Security Mode Feature Set; Security mode
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 58 - the device are predicting a lower probability of a degrading or fault condition existing. Accordingly, lower attribute values indicate that the analysis algorithms being used by the device are predicting a higher probability of a degrading or fault condition exist...
Page 59 - Security Level; Password; Master Password Revision Code; Master Password setting
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 59 - entered after power on, otherwise it is entered by a security unlock or a security erase unit command. Device Frozen mode The device enables all commands except those which can update the device lock function, set/change password. The device enters this mode via a...
Page 60 - Operation from POR after User Password is set
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 60 - Figure 5 Initial Setting Operation from POR after User Password is set When Device Lock Function is enabled, the device rejects media access command until a Security Unlock command is successfully completed.
Page 61 - User Password Lost
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 61 - (*1) refer to Table 35 Command table for device lock operation on Page 63 and Table 36 Command table for device lock operation - continued on Page 64. Figure 6 Usual Operation User Password Lost If the User Password is forgotten and High level security is set, t...
Page 62 - Attempt limit for SECURITY UNLOCK command; Command Table
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 62 - Figure 7 Password Lost Attempt limit for SECURITY UNLOCK command The SECURITY UNLOCK command has an attempt limit. The purpose of this attempt limit is to prevent that someone attempts to unlock the drive by using various passwords many times. The device counts ...
Page 64 - Protected Area Function
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 64 - Command Device Locked Mode Device Unlock Mode Device Frozen Mode Set Max Address x o o Set Max Address Ext x o o Set Max Freeze Lock o o o Set Max Lock o o o Set Max Set Password o o o Set Max Unlock o o o Set Multiple Mode o o o Sleep o o o S.M.A.R.T. Disable Ope...
Page 66 - Set Max security extension commands
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 66 - 12.10.2 Set Max security extension commands The Set Max Set Password command allows the host to define the password to be used during the current power on cycle. This password is not related to the password used for the Security Mode Feature set. When the password...
Page 67 - Seek Overlap; Write Cache Function
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 67 - 12.11 Seek Overlap HTS5432XXL9SA00 / HTS5432XXL9A300 provide accurate seek time measurement method. The seek command is usually used to measure the device seek time by accumulating execution time for a number of seek commands. With typical implementation of the se...
Page 68 - Auto Reassign Function; 8-bit Address Feature Set
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 68 - The spare tracks for reassignment are located at regular intervals from Cylinder 0. As a result of reassignment, the physical location of logically sequenced sectors will be dispersed. 12.13.1 Auto Reassign Function The sectors that show some errors may be realloc...
Page 69 - Software Setting Preservation Feature Set; Preserved software settings
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 69 - 12.15 Software Setting Preservation Feature Set When a device is enumerated, software will configure the device using Set Features and other commands. These software settings are often preserved across software reset but not necessarily across hardware reset. In P...
Page 70 - Setting Contents; Native Command Queuing; Action code
5K320 SATA OEM Specification - 70 - Setting Contents Track length Number of head Number of cylinder Initialize device parameters Capacity Power Management Feature Set Standby Timer Time to fall into standby mode Security freeze lock Security mode state Security unlock Set max address Capacity Write ...
Page 72 - Command Protocol; Data In Commands; Data Out Commands
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 72 13 Command Protocol The commands are grouped into different classes according to the protocols followed for command execution. The command classes with their associated protocols are defined below. Please refer to Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (Section 11. device command la...
Page 74 - DMA Data Transfer Commands; First-parity DMA Commands
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 74 Write Uncorrectable Ext Execution of these commands involves no data transfer. 13.4 DMA Data Transfer Commands These commands are: Read DMA Read DMA Ext Write DMA Write DMA Ext Initiation of the DMA transfer commands is identical to the Read Sector or Write ...
Page 75 - Command Descriptions
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 75 14 Command Descriptions Code Protocol Command (Hex) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 3 Check Power Mode E5 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 Check Power Mode* 98 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 Device Configuration Restore B1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 Device Configuration Freeze Lock B1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 Device Configurat...
Page 80 - DEVICE CONFIGURATION RESTORE (subcommand; DEVICE CONFIGURATION FREEZE LOCK
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 80 14.2 Device Configuration Overlay (B1h) Command Block Output Registers Command Block Input Registers Register 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Register 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Data - - - - - - - - Data - - - - - - - - Feature 1 0 1 0 V V V V Error ...See Below... Sector Count - - - - - - - - ...
Page 111 - General purpose Log Directory; Description; Extended comprehensive SMART error log
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 111 The Extended SMART self-test log sector shall support 48-bit and 28-bit addressing. All 28-bit entries contained in the SMART self-test log sector shall also be included in the Comprehensive SMART self-test log sector with the 48-bit entries. If the feature set assoc...
Page 112 - Error Log version; Error lo
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 112 Description Bytes Offset SMART error log version 1 00h Reserved 1 01h Error log index (7:0) 1 02h Error log index (15:8) 1 03h 1 st error log data structure 124 04h 2 nd error log data structure 124 80h 3 rd error log data structure 124 FCh 4 th error log data struct...
Page 113 - Command data structure:; Error data structure:
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 113 Command data structure: Data format of each command data structure is shown below. Description Bytes Offset Device Control register 1 00h Features register (7:0) (see Note) 1 01h Features register (15:8) 1 02h Sector count register (7:0) 1 03h Sector count register (...
Page 114 - or count; Device err; Extended Self-test log sector; Self-test log data structure revision number
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 114 or count State shall contain a value indicating the state of the device when the command was issued to the device or the reset occurred as described below. Value State x0h Unknown x1h Sleep x2h Standby x3h Active/Idle x4h SMART Off-line or Self-test x5h-xAh Reserved ...
Page 115 - r index; Extended Self-test log descript; Command Error; Byte
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 115 r index or entry 14.17.3.2 Self-test descripto This indicates the most recent self-test descriptor. If there have been no self-tests, this is set to zero. Valid values for the Self-test descriptor index are 0 to 18. 14.17.3.3 Extended Self-test log descript The conte...
Page 116 - anisms; Phy Event Counter; Counter Reset Mech; Read Log Ext Log Page 11h
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 116 anisms ntifiers The Data Structure Checksum (Byte 511) contains the 2’s complement of the sum of the first 511 bytes in the data structure. The sum of all 512 bytes of the data structure will be zero when the checksum is correct. 14.17.5 Phy Event Counter Phy Event C...
Page 150 - Device Attributes Data Structure; Data Structure Revision Number
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 150 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Off-line Immediate(Subcommand D4h) or automatically if the off-line read scanning feature is disabled. A value of F8h written by the host into the device’s Sector Count register before issuing this subcommand shall cause the automatic Off-line data...
Page 152 - Off-Line Data Collection Status
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 152 Bit Flag Name Definition 0 Pre-Failure/Advisory bit If bit = 0, an Attribute Value less than or equal to its corresponding Attribute Threshold indicates an Advisory condition where the usage or age of the device has exceeded its intended design life period. If bit = ...
Page 154 - Self-test completion time; Data Structure Checksum; Device Attribute Thresholds Data Structure
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 154 14.40.2.11 Self-test completion time These bytes are the minimum time in minutes to complete self-test. 14.40.2.12 Data Structure Checksum The Data Structure Checksum is the 2’s compliment of the result of a simple 8-bit addition of the first 511 bytes in the data st...
Page 155 - Attribute ID Numbers; Data Structure Che
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 155 Description Bytes Offset Format Attribute ID Number (01h to FFh) 1 00h binary Attribute Threshold (for comparison with Attribute Values from 00h to FFh) 1 01h binary 00h - “ always passing ” threshold value to be used for code test purposes 01h - minimum value for no...
Page 158 - Self-test log data structure
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 158 14.40.6 Self-test log data structure The following defines the 512 bytes that make up the Self-test log sector. All multi-byte fields shown in these data structures follow the ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications for byte ordering. Description Bytes Offset Data structure revis...
Page 159 - Selective self-test log data structure; Error Reporting
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 159 14.40.7 Selective self-test log data structure The Selective self-test log is a log that may be both written and read by the host. This log allows the host to select the parameters for the self-test and to monitor the progress of the self-test. The following table de...
Page 175 - Timings
5K320 SATA OEM Specification 175 15 Timings The timing of BSY and DRQ in Status Register are shown in the following table. The other timings are described in Functional Specification part. FUNCTION INTERVAL START STOP TIMEOUT Power On and COMRESET Device Ready After Power On Power On and COMRESET St...
