Page 2 - © 2007, Maxtor Corporation All rights reserved
© 2007, Maxtor Corporation All rights reserved Publication number: 100462887, Rev. A March 2007 Maxtor and MaxFax are registered trademarks of Maxtor Corporation, registered in theU.S.A. and other countries. Maxtor DiamondMax, AutTransfer, AutoRead, AutoWrite, Dis-Cache, DiskWare, Defect Free Interf...
Page 3 - DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A
Page 5 - Contents
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A iii Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 7 - List of Figures
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A v List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 9 - Introduction
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following DiamondMax ® 20 Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7,200 RPM spindle speed. • High instantaneous...
Page 10 - About the Serial ATA interface; • Scalability to higher performance levels.
2 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primaryadvantages include: • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity. • Thinne...
Page 11 - Drive specifications; Specification summary tables
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 2.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominalpower. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate thefollowing drive...
Page 12 - Drive specifications summary; for 160 Gbyte models
4 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 160 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3160811AS STM3160211AS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 160 Heads 2 Discs 1 Guaranteed sectors 312,581,808 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default...
Page 14 - for 80 and 40 Gbyte models
6 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 80 and 40 Gbyte models Drive specification STM380811AS STM380211AS STM340211AS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 80 40 Heads 1 Discs 1 Guaranteed sectors 156,301,488 78,165,360 Bytes per sector 512 Default...
Page 16 - Formatted capacity; LBA mode; Default logical geometry; Model
8 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.2 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sec...
Page 17 - Recording and interface technology
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 2.4 Recording and interface technology 2.5 Physical characteristics Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method 16/17 EPRML Recording density KBPI (kbits/inch max) 756.09 Track density KTPI (ktracks/inch avg) 141.95 Areal density (Gbits/inch 2 avg) ...
Page 18 - Seek time; Read; Average
10 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.6 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured usingdrive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to-track seek time is an average of all po...
Page 19 - Power specifications; Avg 5V typ amps; Spinup
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 11 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 4 on page 22. 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measurement...
Page 20 - Typical current profiles; Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile; Conducted noise; injected noise at up to 10 MHz.; Voltage tolerance
12 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.8.1.1 Typical current profiles Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an eq...
Page 21 - Power-management modes; Power modes
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 13 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. In most systems,you can control power management through the system setup program. The drive features the followingpower-management m...
Page 22 - Environmental specifications
14 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive.Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156°F) within the operating ambie...
Page 23 - Vibration; Acoustics; by the following equation:; Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor acoustics; Seek; All models
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 2.9.6 Vibration All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input vibration applied at thedrive mounting screws. Vibration may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.6.1 Operating vibration The maximum vibration le...
Page 24 - Electromagnetic immunity; Radio frequency environments; Test
16 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.11 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a representative host system, the drive operates without errors or degradation inperformance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environments defined in the following table: 2.12 Reliab...
Page 25 - Agency certification; Safety certification; • Certificate number:; Pending; • Trade name or applicant: Seagate Technology
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 2.13 Agency certification 2.13.1 Safety certification The drives are recognized in accordance with UL 1950 and CSA C22.2 (950) and meet all applicable sectionsof IEC950 and EN 60950 as tested by TUV North America. 2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibilit...
Page 26 - FCC verification; • Reorient the receiving antenna.; Environmental protection; European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
18 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.13.3 FCC verification These drives are intended to be contained solely within a personal computer or similar enclosure (not attachedas an external device). As such, each drive is considered to be a subassembly even when it is individually mar-kete...
Page 27 - Corrosive environment
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 19 2.15 Corrosive environment Seagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 years exposure tolight industrial environments containing sulfurous gases, chlorine and nitric oxide, classes G and H per ASTMB845. Ho...
Page 29 - Configuring and mounting the drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions; • Handle the drive by its edges or frame only.
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. 3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions After unpacking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed...
Page 30 - Configuring the drive; Figure 3. Serial ATA connectors and jumper options; Serial ATA cables and connectors; Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling
22 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is nomaster/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point relationship. If twodrives ...
Page 31 - Drive mounting; Figure 5. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 23 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in thebottom-mounting holes. See Figure 5 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau-tions when moun...
Page 33 - Hot-Plug compatibility
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 25 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATAprogrammed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6. For detailed info...
Page 34 - Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions; • the ground pins P4 and P12.; Serial ATA connector pin definitions
26 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 6 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA interface and power connectors.. Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence appl...
Page 35 - Supported ATA commands; Command name
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 27 4.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description ofthe ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment specification. See“S.M.A.R.T. comm...
Page 37 - Identify Device command; The Identify Device command (command code EC; Word; xxxx
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 4.3.1 Identify Device command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The data is organized as a single 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in Table 7 onpage...
Page 39 - Bit
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 31 Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. 128 Security status 0001 H 129–159 Seagate-reserved xx...
Page 40 - Set Features command
32 DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 4.3.2 Set Features command This command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supports. When the drive receivesthis command, it sets BSY, checks the contents of the Features register, clears BSY and generates an inter-rupt. ...
Page 41 - Code in features register
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 33 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands S.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T. is enabled, the drive moni-tors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determinesth...
Page 43 - Maxtor support services
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 5.0 Maxtor support services Before contacting Maxtor Support, use the Hard Disk Information feature in MaxBlast to view the model num-ber and serial number of your drive. These numbers can be used to get help from Maxtor Support, registeryour drive,...
Page 45 - Index
DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 Index A ACA 17 acceleration 15 acoustics 15 Active 13 Active mode 13 actuator arm 11 Agency certification 17 altitude 14 Ambient temperature 14 ambient temperature 10 , 11 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 16 areal density 1 , 9 ATA commands 27 Australi...
