Page 2 - Contents
Contents Preface ..................................................................................... 1Electrostatic discharge protection ............................................ 2Important safety information and precautions .......................... 3Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise ................
Page 3 - Preface; Additional information is available in the; Cheetah 36 Product; representative if you need to order this publication.
Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A 1 Preface This manual contains handling information, support services,performance specifications, and installation information forSeagate® Cheetah 36 SCSI disc drives. Although you can jump ahead to the installation instructions toget up and running quickly, you...
Page 4 - Handling precautions; Always handle the drive by its edges or frame.; Electrostatic discharge protection
2 Cheetah 36 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 discharge...
Page 5 - Important safety information and precautions
Cheetah 36 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 objects...
Page 10 - Regulatory agency compliance; • 486, Pentium, and PowerPC microprocessors
8 Cheetah 36 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 thosetests ...
Page 12 - General description; Cheetah; for a properly designed enclosure.
10 Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A General description Cheetah 36 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 systemsthat u...
Page 13 - Single-ended and low voltage differential modes; Note. To operate at the Ultra2 SCSI rates in LVD mode, all; • Faster transfer rates.
Cheetah 36 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 and...
Page 14 - SE and LVD bus configurations; LVD
12 Cheetah 36 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 i...
Page 16 - Suggested air flow; Empfohlener Luftstromverlauf
14 Cheetah 36 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 re...
Page 17 - Characteristics
Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A 15 Characteristics ST136403LW/LC Interface Ultra2 SCSI 1 Capacity Unformatted (Gbytes)Formatted (Gbytes) 2 43.236.4 Recording Cylinders (user)Read/write data headsAvg bytes/track 9,80124153,284 - 229,045 Access time 3 Average read (msec)Average write (msec) 6.15...
Page 19 - How to install the drive; LW model installation
Cheetah 36 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: LW models (use the installation steps beginning b...
Page 20 - Setting the SCSI ID on LW model drives
18 Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 3. Setting the SCSI ID on LW model drives SCSI ID = 0 (default) Note: [1] Do not remove cover from pins 13 through 20 (darkened area). Jumper Plug (enlarged toshow detail) J6 DriveFront Pin 1 SCSI ID = 1 SCSI ID = 2 SCSI ID = 3 SCSI ID = 4 SCSI ID = 5 ...
Page 21 - Configure termination.
Cheetah 36 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. LW model drives do not have internal t...
Page 22 - SCSI bus termination
20 Cheetah 36 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 I...
Page 26 - Additional jumper options
24 Cheetah 36 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 writing)...
Page 28 - Connecting cables to the drive
26 Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 8. Connecting cables to the drive
Page 29 - Multiple-drive connection to host adapter
Cheetah 36 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 Terminated Host Adapter PCB Pin 1 (...
Page 31 - Additional connector on LW model drives; Figure 11. Alternate SCSI ID select and LED connection
Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A 29 Additional connector on LW model drives LW model drives have a connector located between the SCSI I/Oconnector and the DC power connector to allow you to set theSCSI ID and connect LEDs from the back of the drive. You arenot required to use this connector, bu...
Page 32 - LC model installation
30 Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A LC model installation 1. Set the SCSI ID on the drive. Determine which SCSI IDs are already being used in thesystem and then assign the disc drive a SCSI ID that isn’talready being used. Use the J6 connector located on thefront of the drive to set the SCSI ID...
Page 33 - Figure 12. Setting the SCSI ID on LC model drives
Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A 31 Figure 12. Setting the SCSI ID on LC model drives SCSI ID = 0 (default) Note: [1] Do not remove cover from pins 13 through 20 (darkened area). Jumper Plug (enlarged toshow detail) J6 DriveFront Pin 1 SCSI ID = 1 SCSI ID = 2 SCSI ID = 3 SCSI ID = 4 SCSI ID = 5...
Page 36 - Figure 13. Additional jumper options
34 Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A Figure 13. Additional jumper options SE DS M E W P PD RES RES RES 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 37 - Mount the drive in the host system.; Connector
Cheetah 36 Installation Guide, Rev. A 35 4. Mount the drive in the host system. To mount an LC model drive, plug the drive into the system’ssingle 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
Cheetah 36 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 a...
Page 40 - prompt, type fdisk and press; ENTER
38 Cheetah 36 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 3.1...
Page 41 - active; Drive formatting
Cheetah 36 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 erase all data on the drive. d. Press 1 to select “Create DOS partition or logical DOS drive” and then press the ENTER key. e...
Page 43 - Seagate Technology support services; Online Services; Internet; or; SeaBOARD; is a computer bulletin board system that contains; Automated Services; SeaFONE
Cheetah 36 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/su...
Page 44 - SeaFAX; is Seagate's automated FAX delivery system. Using a; Presales Support; Seagate Express; Technical Support; is a
42 Cheetah 36 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. Using ...
Page 45 - USA/Canada/Latin America Support Services
Cheetah 36 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 Integrator ...
Page 46 - MA Informatica; European Support Services; Call Center
44 Cheetah 36 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 Adtech ...
Page 47 - Africa/Middle East Support Services
Cheetah 36 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 Support/...
Page 48 - Australia; Warranty Repair; Japan
46 Cheetah 36 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
