Page 2 - Revision history; © 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA
Revision history © 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA Publication number: 100539222, Rev. A, March 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Savvio 10K.4 and SeaToo...
Page 3 - Contents; PowerChoice
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A i Contents 1.0 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Standards, compliance and reference documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 6.5 Environmental limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296.5.1 Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2...
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Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A iii 9.5.10 Motor start controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 9.5.11 SEL_6 through SEL_0 ID lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 9.5.12 Device control...
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Page 7 - Scope; This manual describes Seagate Technology
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Savvio ® 10K.4 FC (Fibre Channel) disk drives. Savvio 10K.4 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifica-tions to the extent described in this manual. T...
Page 8 - Standards, compliance and reference documents; Standards; Fibre Channel Interface Manual; Electromagnetic compatibility
2 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 2.0 Standards, compliance and reference documents 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 achieve ...
Page 9 - Electromagnetic compliance; • Typical current use microprocessor; Electromagnetic compliance for the European Union; European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 3 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 repre...
Page 10 - Reference documents; Specification for Acoustic Test Requirement and Procedures
4 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 2.3 Reference documents SCSI Commands Reference Manual Seagate part number: 100293068 Fibre Channel Interface Manual Seagate part number: 100293070 ANSI Fibre Channel Documents X3.230-1994 FC Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) X3.297.1997 FC-PH-2 Fibre ...
Page 11 - General description
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 5 3.0 General description Savvio 10K.4 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Savvio 10K.4 FC drives sup-port 4-Gb Fibre Channe...
Page 13 - Sector Size
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 7 3.3 Performance • Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 800MB/s maximum instantaneous data transfers per port • 10K RPM spindle. Average latency = 3.0ms • Command queuing of up to 128 commands • Background processing of queue • Supports start and stop...
Page 14 - Programmable drive capacity; SCSI Commands Reference Manual; Factory-installed options; • The; User-installed accessories
8 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 3.6 Programmable drive capacity Using the Mode Select command, the drive can change its capacity to something less than maximum. See the Mode Select Parameter List table in the SCSI Commands Reference Manual . Refer to the Parameter list block descriptor numb...
Page 15 - Performance characteristics; Internal drive characteristics; Access time; Not including controller overhead
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Sav-vio 10K.4 FC drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics ST9600204FC ST9450404FC Drive capacity* 600 450 GBs (formatte...
Page 16 - Fibre Channel
10 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 4.2.2 Format command execution time (minutes) Note. There is approximately a 1.5 increase in time to format a SED drive versus a non-SED drive of the same capacity. 4.2.3 General performance characteristics 4.3 Start/stop time If the Motor Start option is di...
Page 17 - Cache operation; Refer to the; FC Interface Manual; Case A; Drive transfers the requested logical blocks to the initiator.; Case B
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 11 4.5 Cache operation Note. Refer to the Fibre Channel Interface Manual for more detail concerning the cache bits. Of the 16MBs physical buffer space in the drive, approximately 13,000KB can be used as a cache. The buffer is divided into logical segments from ...
Page 18 - Caching write data; Tables 17 and 18 show the mode default settings for these drives.; Prefetch operation
12 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 4.5.1 Caching write data Write caching is a write operation by the drive that makes use of a drive buffer storage area where the data to be written to the medium is stored while the drive performs the Write command. If read caching is enabled (RCD=0), then d...
Page 19 - Reliability specifications; Error rates; The error rates stated in this manual assume the following:; Recoverable Errors; Recoverable Data errors will use Error Correction when needed.; Unrecoverable Errors
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 13 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 T...
Page 20 - Seek errors; seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors; Interface errors; Reliability and service; • 250 average on/off cycles per year; Preventive maintenance; No routine scheduled preventive maintenance is required.; Hot plugging the drive
14 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 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 p...
Page 22 - which is the
16 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A Reporting control Reporting is controlled by the MRIE bits in the Informational Exceptions Control mode page (1Ch). Subject to the reporting method. For example, if the MRIE is set to one, the firmware will issue to the host an 01-5D00 sense code. The FRU fi...
Page 23 - Primary Temperature
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 17 be used to set this trip point. The default value for this drive is 68°C, however, you can set it to any value in the range of 0 to 68°C. If you specify a temperature greater than 68°C in this field, the temperature is rounded down to 68°C. A sense code is s...
Page 24 - DST has two testing options:; Log page entries; The Self-Test Results Value field is set to Fh
18 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A A Drive Not Ready condition is reported by the drive under the following conditions: • Motor will not spin• Motor will not lock to speed• Servo will not lock on track• Drive cannot read configuration tables from the disk In these conditions, the drive respon...
Page 26 - Physical/electrical specifications; power management; PowerChoice modes; Reduced electronics
20 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 6.0 Physical/electrical specifications This section provides information relating to the physical and electrical characteristics of the drive. 6.1 PowerChoice TM power management Drives using the load/unload architecture provide programmable power management...
Page 27 - PowerChoice reporting methods; provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes:; Request Sense command reports; • Specified and accumulated Start/Stops and Load/Unload cycles; AC power requirements
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 21 6.1.1 PowerChoice reporting methods PowerChoice TM provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes: Request Sense command reports • Current power condition• Method of entry Note. Processing the Request Sense command does not impact the drive’s power s...
Page 28 - DC power requirements; Notes; Voltage
22 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 6.3 DC power requirements The voltage and current requirements for a single drive are shown below. Values indicated apply at the drive connector. Notes are shown following Table 3. Table 2: DC power requirements for ST9600204FC model 2Gb 4Gb Notes (Amps) (Am...
Page 30 - Operating condition is defined as random 8 block reads.; General DC power requirement notes.; The +5V and +12V supplies should employ separate ground returns.; Conducted noise immunity
24 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A [4] See +12V current profile in Figure 4. [5] This condition occurs when the Motor Start option is enabled and the drive has not yet received a Start Motor command. [6] See paragraph 6.3.1, "Conducted noise immunity." Specified voltage tolerance incl...
Page 31 - Current profiles
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 25 6.3.3 Current profiles The +12V and +5V current profiles for the ST9600204FC and ST9450404FC models are shown below. Note: All times and currents are typical. See Tables 2 and 3 for maximum current requirements. Figure 1. Typical ST9600204FC drive, 4Gb, +5V ...
Page 33 - Power dissipation
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 27 6.4 Power dissipation ST9600204FC Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4Gb operation is 8.32 watts (28.40 BTUs per hour). To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 3). Locate...
Page 35 - Environmental limits; Temperature; Figure 5. Locations of the HDA temperature check point; Relative humidity; The values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs.
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 29 6.5 Environmental limits Temperature and humidity values experienced by the drive must be such that condensation does not occur on any drive part. Altitude and atmospheric pressure specifications are referenced to a standard day at 58.7°F (14.8°C). Maximum w...
Page 36 - • 40 Gs at a duration of 11ms (half sinewave)
30 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 6.5.3 Effective altitude (sea level) a. Operating –1,000 to +10,000 feet (–305 to +3,048 meters) b. Non-operating –1,000 to +40,000 feet (–305 to +12,192 meters) 6.5.4 Shock and vibration Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measured dir...
Page 38 - Vibration; Operating normal translational random flat profile; Acoustics
32 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 6.5.4.2 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 5-500 Hz @ 0.5 G (zero to peak) Vibration may be applied in the X, Y...
Page 40 - Mechanical specifications; Figure 7. Mounting configuration dimensions
34 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 6.6 Mechanical specifications Refer to Figure 7 for detailed physical dimensions. See Section 8.4, “Drive mounting.” Figure 7. Mounting configuration dimensions Height: 0.583 in 14.81 mm Width: 2.755 in 69.98 mm Depth: * 4.340 in 110.23 mm Weight: 0.467 lb 0...
Page 41 - Defect and error management; Drive internal defects/errors; Drive error recovery procedures
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 35 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 er...
Page 42 - These values are subject to change.; Read and write retry count maximum recovery times
36 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A The drive firmware error recovery algorithms consists of 11 levels for read recoveries and five levels for write. Each level may consist of multiple steps, where a step is defined as a recovery function involving a single re-read or re-write attempt. The max...
Page 43 - Background Media Scan
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 37 7.3 FC-AL system errors Information on the reporting of operational errors or faults across the interface is given in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual . The FCP Response returns information to the host about numerous kinds of errors or faults. The Receive ...
Page 45 - Installation; Drive ID/option selection
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 39 8.0 Installation Savvio 10K.4 FC disk drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or termina-tors on the drive. Simply plug the drive into the host’s 40-pin Fibre Channel backpanel connector (FC-SCA) — no cables are require...
Page 46 - Figure 8. Air flow; Drive mounting
40 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A If forced air is necessary, possible air-flow patterns are shown in Figure 8. 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 l...
Page 47 - Grounding
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 41 8.5 Grounding Signal ground (PCBA) and HDA ground are connected together in the drive and cannot be separated by the user. The equipment in which the drive is mounted is connected directly to the HDA and PCBA with no electri-cally isolating shock mounts. If ...
Page 48 - Interface requirements; Fibre Channel link service frames; Table 5 lists the link services supported by Savvio 10K.4 FC drives.; Basic link service frames
42 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Savvio 10K.4 FC drives. Addi-tional information is provided in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 100293070). 9.1 FC-AL features This sectio...
Page 50 - Fibre Channel port login; Bytes
44 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.1.4 Fibre Channel port login Table 8 identifies the required content of the N_Port Login (PLOGI) payload from an initiator. Table 8: 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 PN P...
Page 51 - Fibre Channel port login accept; Table 9 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values.; Fibre Channel Process Login; Table 10 lists the process login payload data.; XX
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 45 9.1.5 Fibre Channel port login accept Table 9 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values. 9.1.6 Fibre Channel Process Login Table 10 lists the process login payload data. XX Indicates fields that are not used. Table 9: N_Port Login Accept (ACC) payloa...
Page 52 - Fibre Channel Process Login Accept; Table 11 lists Savvio 10K.4 FC process login accept payload data.; Fibre Channel fabric login; Table 12 lists the fabric login payload from the drive.
46 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Login Accept Table 11 lists Savvio 10K.4 FC process login accept payload data. 9.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric login Table 12 lists the fabric login payload from the drive. Table 11: Process Login Accept (ACC) payload Bytes 0-15 02 10 ...
Page 53 - Fibre Channel fabric accept login
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 47 9.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept login Table 13 lists the required content of the Fabric Login Accept (ACC) payload from the fabric. Table 13: 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_ T0...
Page 54 - Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options; Table 14 lists the FC-AL options supported by Savvio 10K.4 FC drives.; Dual port support; ing a soft address to prevent an address conflict.
48 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options Table 14 lists the FC-AL options supported by Savvio 10K.4 FC drives. 9.2 Dual port support Savvio 10K.4 FC drives have two independent FC-AL ports. These ports may be connected on independent loops or on the same...
Page 55 - SCSI commands supported; Supported commands
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 49 9.3 SCSI commands supported Table 15 lists the SCSI commands supported by Savvio 10K.4 FC drives. Table 15: Supported commands Command code Supported [4] Command name 00h Y Test unit ready 01h Y Rezero unit 03h Y Request sense Y Extended sense Y Field pointe...
Page 59 - Inquiry data; Mode Sense data; Default values
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 53 9.3.1 Inquiry data Table 16 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per the format given in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual . * Copyright year (changes with actual year). ** SCSI Revision support. Refer to the appropia...
Page 61 - CHG 9c 0a 9d 0f ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 55 Table 17: Mode Sense data saved, default and changeable values for ST9600204FC drives MODE DATA HEADER: 01 92 00 10 00 00 00 08 BLOCK DESCRIPTOR: 45 dd 2f b0 00 00 02 00 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0c ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff...
Page 63 - Miscellaneous operating features and conditions
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 57 9.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 19 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....
Page 64 - FC-AL physical interface; Physical characteristics; This section defines physical interface connector.; Physical description
58 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.5 FC-AL physical interface Figure 9 shows the location of the J1 Fibre Channel single connection attachment (FC-SCA). Figure 11 pro-vides the dimensions of the FC-SCA connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provided ...
Page 65 - Figure 10. Port bypass circuit physical interconnect; Connector requirements; The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in Figure 11.; Electrical description; Fibre Channel drives use the FC-SCA connector for:; Pin descriptions
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 59 Figure 10. Port bypass circuit physical interconnect 9.5.2 Connector requirements The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in Figure 11. Figure 11. FC-AL SCA device connector dimensions 9.5.3 Electrical description Fibre Channel drives use the FC-SCA co...
Page 66 - *Short pins in mating backpanel connector.; FC-AL transmitters and receivers
60 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A Table 21: 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 sele...
Page 67 - The Fault LED Out signal is driven by the drive when:
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 61 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 sup...
Page 68 - • Transmitter/receiver wrap test failure; Motor start controls
62 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.5.8 Active LED Out The Active LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 22. 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 limiti...
Page 69 - Parallel Enclosure Services Interface (ESI)
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 63 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....
Page 71 - Device control codes; Signal characteristics; TTL input characteristics; Table 26 provides the TTL characteristics.; Reserved for power failure warning.
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 65 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 ...
Page 72 - Serial output voltage swing; Serial input voltage swing; AC coupled
66 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 9.6.2 LED driver signals Fault and Active LED signals are located in the FC-SCA connector (J1). See Table 27 for the output character-istics of the LED drive signals. 9.6.3 FC Differential output The serial output signal voltage characteristics are provided ...
Page 73 - Typical
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 67 Figure 14 provides the data valid eye diagram for typical and minimum requirements to recover data at the specified interface error rate. The inputs are AC coupled on the drive. Figure 14. Receive eye diagram Table 30: Eye diagram data values Link rate 1 GHz...
Page 74 - Seagate Technology support services; Web; For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit
68 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 10.0 Seagate Technology support services Web For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit www.seagate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours daily by email for your questions. Warranty Support: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/suppor...
Page 75 - Customer Service Operations; Presales Support; Seagate technical support is available to assist you online at; Warranty Service; See; USA/Canada/Latin America support services; Direct dial; and Mexico; Europe, the Middle East and Africa Support Services
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 69 Customer Service Operations Presales Support Our Presales Support staff can help you determine which Seagate products are best suited for your specific application or computer system, as well as product availability and compatibility. Technical Support Seaga...
Page 77 - Index; Numerics
Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A 71 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 61 3rd party reserve command 52 5 volt pins 61 A Abort Sequence (ABTS) 42 abort task set function 43 AC coupling 60 AC power requirements 21 ACA active status 57 ACA active, faulted initiator status 57 Accept (ACC) 42 acoustics 32...
Page 82 - See also
76 Savvio 10K.4 FC Product Manual, Rev. A shipping container 29 shock 30 and vibration 30 shock mount 41 signal characteristics 65 LED driver 66 single-unit shipping pack kit 8 SMART 7 , 15 SMP = 1 in Mode Select command 57 SO 44 , 47 spindle brake 6 Stacked connection req. 44 , 47 standards 2 Stand...