Page 3 - Contents
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B i Contents 1.0 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Standards, compliance and reference documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 6.4.2 Relative humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.4.3 Effective altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.4.4 Shock...
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Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B iii 9.5.12 Device control codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 9.6 Signal characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Page 7 - Scope; This manual describes Seagate Technology
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 1 1.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC (Fibre Channel) disk drives. Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifications to the extent described in this ...
Page 9 - Standards, compliance and reference documents; Standards; Fibre Channel Interface Manual; Electromagnetic compatibility
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 3 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 achi...
Page 10 - Compliance; Electromagnetic compliance
4 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 2.2 Compliance 2.2.1 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 sel...
Page 11 - Reference documents; Specification for Acoustic Test Requirement and Procedures
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 5 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 Fi...
Page 13 - General description
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 7 3.0 General description Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Cheetah NS 10K.2 FCdrives support 4-Gbit ...
Page 14 - Standard features; mands. Jumpers are not used on the drive.; Media description
8 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 3.1 Standard features Cheetah NS FC drives have the following standard features:• Perpendicular recording technology• 4-Gbit Fibre Channel interface• Integrated dual port FC-AL controller• Concurrent dual port transfers• Support for FC arbitrated loop, pr...
Page 15 - Sector Size
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9 3.3 Performance • Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 800 Mbytes/sec maximum instantaneous data transfers per port• 10k RPM spindle. Average latency = 2.98 msec• Command queuing of up to 128 commands • Background processing of queue• Supports st...
Page 16 - Programmable drive capacity; SCSI Commands Reference Manual; Factory-installed options; • The; User-installed accessories
10 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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...
Page 17 - Performance characteristics; Internal drive characteristics; Access time; Not including controller overhead
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 11 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics ST3600002FC ST3450802FC ST3300602FC Drive capacity* 6...
Page 18 - General performance characteristics; There is no power control switch on the drive.
12 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 4.2.2 Format command execution time (minutes) ST3600002FC ST3450802FC ST3300602FC Maximum (with verify) 182 129 83 Maximum (without verify) 101 68 43 Execution time measured from receipt of the last byte of the Command Descriptor Block (CDB) to the reque...
Page 19 - Cache operation; Refer to the; Case A; Drive transfers the requested logical blocks to the initiator.; Case B
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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 c...
Page 20 - Caching write data; Tables 18 and 19 show the mode default settings for these drives.; Prefetch operation
14 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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), th...
Page 21 - Reliability specifications; Error rates; retries and full retry time.; Recoverable Errors
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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 rat...
Page 22 - Seek errors; seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors; Interface errors; Reliability and service; Preventive maintenance; No routine scheduled preventive maintenance is required.; Hot plugging the drive
16 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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 se...
Page 23 - 2 milliseconds
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 17 The Pass-through state is disabled while the drive performs self test of the FC interface. The control line for an external port bypass circuit remains in the Enable Bypass state while self test is running. If the bypass circuit is present, loop operatio...
Page 25 - DST failure definition; Recovered errors will not be reported as diagnostic failures.; Implementation; Primary Temperature
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 19 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 ...
Page 26 - The Self-Test Results Value field is set to Fh
20 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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 res...
Page 29 - Physical/electrical specifications; AC power requirements; Notes
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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 dri...
Page 31 - and; General DC power requirement notes.
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 25 Measured with average reading DC ammeter. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these values. Power supply at nominal voltage. N (number of drives tested) = 6, 35 Degrees C ambient.[4] For +12 V, a –10% tolerance is allowed during initial spindle ...
Page 35 - Power dissipation
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 29 6.3 Power dissipation ST3600002FC Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 6.55 watts (22.33 BTUs per hour). To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 4)....
Page 38 - Environmental limits; Temperature; Figure 7. Locations of the HDA temperature check point; Relative humidity
32 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 6.4 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). Maxim...
Page 39 - b. Operating—abnormal
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 33 6.4.3 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) 6.4.4 Shock and vibration Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measured...
Page 41 - Vibration; Acoustics
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 35 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 - 300 Hz 1 G RMS (0 to peak) 301 - 500 Hz 0.5 G RMS (0 to pea...
Page 43 - Mechanical specifications; Figure 9. Mounting configuration dimensions
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 37 6.5 Mechanical specifications Refer to Figure 9 for detailed physical dimensions. See Section 8.4, “Drive mounting.” Figure 9. Mounting configuration dimensions Height (max): 1.013 in 25.73 mm Width (max): 3.999 in 101.57 mm Depth (max): 5.769 in 146.53 ...
Page 45 - Defect and error management; Drive internal defects/errors; Drive error recovery procedures
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 39 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 an...
Page 46 - Read and write retry count maximum recovery times
40 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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...
Page 47 - Background Media Scan
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 41 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 Rece...
Page 49 - Installation; Drive ID/option selection
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 43 8.0 Installation Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC disk drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or terminators on the drive. Simply plug the drive into the host’s 40-pin Fibre Channel backpanel connector (FC-SCA) — no cables are ...
Page 50 - Figure 10. Air flow; Drive mounting
44 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B If forced air is necessary, possible air-flow patterns are shown in Figure 10. 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...
Page 51 - Grounding
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 45 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....
Page 53 - Interface requirements; Fibre Channel link service frames; Link services supported; Basic link service frames
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 47 9.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. Additional information is provided in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 100293070). 9.1 FC-AL features This...
Page 55 - Fibre Channel port login; Bytes
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 49 9.1.4 Fibre Channel port login Table 9 identifies the required content of the N_Port Login (PLOGI) payload from an initiator. Table 9: 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 ...
Page 56 - Fibre Channel port login accept; Table 10 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values.; Fibre Channel Process Login; Table 11 lists the process login payload data.; XX
50 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9.1.5 Fibre Channel port login accept Table 10 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values. 9.1.6 Fibre Channel Process Login Table 11 lists the process login payload data. XX Indicates fields that are not used. Table 10: N_Port Login Accept (ACC) ...
Page 57 - Table 13 lists the fabric login payload from the drive.
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 51 9.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Login Accept Table 12 lists Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC process login accept payload data. 9.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric login Table 13 lists the fabric login payload from the drive. Table 12: Process Login Accept (ACC) payload Bytes 0-1...
Page 58 - Fibre Channel fabric accept login
52 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9.1.9 Fibre Channel fabric accept login Table 14 lists the required content of the Fabric Login Accept (ACC) payload from the fabric. Table 14: 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...
Page 59 - Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options; Dual port support; ing a soft address to prevent an address conflict.
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 53 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options Table 15 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. 9.2 Dual port support Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives have two independent FC-AL ports. These ports may be connected on indepen-dent loops o...
Page 60 - SCSI commands supported; Supported commands
54 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9.3 SCSI commands supported Table 16 lists the SCSI commands supported by Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. Table 16: 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 Fiel...
Page 64 - Inquiry data; PP 50 = Inquiry data for an Inquiry command received on Port A.; Mode Sense data; Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC inquiry data
58 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9.3.1 Inquiry data Table 17 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 appr...
Page 69 - Miscellaneous operating features and conditions
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 63 9.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 21 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 suppor...
Page 70 - FC-AL physical interface; Physical characteristics; This section defines physical interface connector.; Physical description; Figure 12. Port bypass circuit physical interconnect; J1 interface connector
64 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9.5 FC-AL physical interface Figure 11 shows the location of the J1 Fibre Channel single connection attachment (FC-SCA). Figure 13 pro-vides the dimensions of the FC-SCA connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are prov...
Page 71 - Connector requirements; The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in Figure 13.; Electrical description
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 65 9.5.2 Connector requirements The FC-AL SCA device connector is illustrated in Figure 13. Figure 13. 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 se...
Page 72 - FC-AL transmitters and receivers
66 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B Table 23: FC-SCA pin descriptions Pin Signal name Signal type Pin Signal name Signal type 1* -EN bypass port A Low Voltage TTL output 21 12 Volts charge 2* 12 Volts 22 Ground 3* 12 Volts 23 Ground 4* 12 Volts 24* +Port A_in FC Diff. input pair 5* -Parall...
Page 75 - Parallel Enclosure Services Interface (ESI); High; Motor start control signals
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 69 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 l...
Page 77 - Device control codes; Signal characteristics; TTL input characteristics; Table 28 provides the TTL characteristics.; Reserved for power failure warning.
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 71 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 ...
Page 78 - Serial output voltage swing; Serial input voltage swing; AC coupled
72 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 9.6.2 LED driver signals Fault and Active LED signals are located in the FC-SCA connector (J1). See Table 29 for the output character-istics of the LED drive signals. 9.6.3 FC Differential output The serial output signal voltage characteristics are provi...
Page 79 - Typical
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 73 Figure 16 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 16. Receive eye diagram Table 32: Eye diagram data values Link rate 1...
Page 81 - Seagate Technology support services; Internet; For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit; mySeagate; Global Customer Support; Presales Support
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 75 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...
Page 82 - Customer Service Operations; Warranty Service; for the service center near you.; USA/Canada/Latin America support services; Direct dial; and Mexico; Europe, the Middle East and Africa Support Services
76 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 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-...
Page 83 - Index; Numerics
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 77 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 67 3rd party reserve command 57 5 volt pins 67 A Abort Sequence (ABTS) 47 abort task set function 48 AC coupling 66 AC power requirements 23 ACA active status 63 ACA active, faulted initiator status 63 Accept (ACC) 47 acoustic...
Page 88 - See also
82 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B single-unit shipping pack kit 10 SMART 9 , 17 SMP = 1 in Mode Select command 63 SO 49 , 52 spindle brake 8 Stacked connection req. 49 , 52 standards 3 Start unit/stop unit command 55 start/stop time 12 support services 75 Supported diagnostics pages comm...
