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Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C i Contents 1.0 Seagate Technology support services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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ii Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 7.4.1 Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 7.4.2 Relative humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 7.4.3 Eff...
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Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C iii 12.3.1 Inquiry data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 12.3.2 Mode Sense data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 12.4 Mi...
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Page 7 - Seagate Technology support services; SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 1 1.0 Seagate Technology support services SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES For information regarding products and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/ Available services include: Presales & Technical support Global Support ...
Page 8 - Scope; This manual describes Seagate Technology
2 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 2.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Cheetah ® 15K.7 FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifi-cations to the extent described in this manual...
Page 9 - Applicable standards and reference documentation; Standards; Fibre Channel Interface Manual; Electromagnetic compatibility
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 3 3.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation 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 - Electromagnetic compliance; • Typical current use microprocessor; Electromagnetic compliance for the European Union; European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
4 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 3.1.2 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 repr...
Page 11 - Reference documents; Specification for Acoustic Test Requirement and Procedures
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5 3.3 Reference documents ANSI Fibre Channel Documents X3.230-1994 FC Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) X3.297.1997 FC-PH-2 Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface-2 X3.303.1998 FC-PH-3 Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface-3 X3.272-1996...
Page 12 - General description
6 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 4.0 General description Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems includ-ing engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support 4-Gbit Fibre C...
Page 13 - Standard features
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 7 4.1 Standard features Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives have the following standard features: • 4-Gbit Fibre Channel interface • Integrated dual port FC-AL controller • Concurrent dual port transfers • Support for FC arbitrated loop, private and public attachment • Di...
Page 15 - Programmable drive capacity; SCSI Commands Reference Manual; Factory-installed options; • The; User-installed accessories
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9 4.5.1 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 n...
Page 16 - Performance characteristics; Internal drive characteristics; Access time; Not including controller overhead
10 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives. 5.1 Internal drive characteristics ST3600057FC ST3450857FC ST3300657FC ST3600957FC ST3450757FC...
Page 17 - General performance characteristics; Fibre Channel
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 11 5.2.2 Format command execution time (minutes) When changing sector sizes, the format times shown below may need to be increased by 30 minutes. Note. There is approximately a 1.5 increase in time to format a SED drive versus a non-SED drive of the same capac...
Page 18 - Cache operation; Refer to the; Case A; Drive transfers the requested logical blocks to the initiator.; Case B
12 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 5.4 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 cach...
Page 19 - Caching write data; Table 18 shows the mode default settings for the drive.; Prefetch operation
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 13 5.5.1 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 ...
Page 20 - Reliability specifications; Error rates; Recoverable Errors
14 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 6.0 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. 6.1 Error rates ...
Page 21 - Seek errors; seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors; Interface errors; Reliability and service; These drives shall achieve an AFR of; Preventive maintenance; No routine scheduled preventive maintenance is required.; Hot plugging the drive
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 15 6.1.3 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 ...
Page 22 - 2 milliseconds
16 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C present, loop operation may continue. If the bypass circuit is not present, loop operation will be halted while the self test of the FC interface runs. When the self test completes successfully, the control line to the bypass circuit is disabled and the dri...
Page 23 - Primary Temperature
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 17 Determining rate S.M.A.R.T. monitors the rate at which errors occur and signals a predictive failure if the rate of degraded errors increases to an unacceptable level. To determine rate, error events are logged and compared to the number of total operations...
Page 25 - Short and extended tests; DST has two testing options:; Log page entries; The Self-Test Results Value field is set to Fh; Abort
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 19 6.2.6.2.3 Short and extended tests DST has two testing options: 1. short 2. extended These testing options are described in the following two subsections. Each test consists of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and a read/ver...
Page 27 - Physical/electrical specifications; AC power requirements
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 21 7.0 Physical/electrical specifications This section provides information relating to the physical and electrical characteristics of the drive. 7.1 AC power requirements None. 7.2 DC power requirements The voltage and current requirements for a single drive ...
Page 29 - General DC power requirement notes.; The +5V and +12V supplies should employ separate ground returns.
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 23 [1] Measured with average reading DC ammeter. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these val-ues. Power supply at nominal voltage. N (number of drives tested) = 6, 35 Degrees C ambient. [2] For +12 V, a –10% tolerance is allowed during initial spind...
Page 30 - The +12V and +5V current profiles are shown in the following figures.
24 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 7.2.1 Conducted noise immunity Noise is specified as a periodic and random distribution of frequencies covering a band from DC to 10 MHz. Maximum allowed noise values given below are peak-to-peak measurements and apply at the drive power connector. 7.2.2 Po...
Page 33 - Power dissipation
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 27 7.3 Power dissipation 600GB model Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 11.58 watts (39.52 BTUs per hour). To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 4). L...
Page 35 - Environmental limits; Temperature
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 29 300GB models Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 4 Gbit operation is 9.06 watts (30.92 BTUs per hour). To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 4). Locate the typical I/O ...
Page 36 - Figure 7. Locations of the HDA temperature check point; Relative humidity; The values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs.
30 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C b. Non-operating –40° to 158°F (–40° to 70°C) package ambient with a maximum gradient of 86°F (30°C) per hour. This specification assumes that the drive is packaged in the shipping container designed by Seagate for use with drive. HDA Temp. Check Point .5...
Page 37 - shall not exhibit device
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 31 7.4.4 Shock and vibration Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measured directly on the drive chassis. If the drive is installed in an enclosure to which the stated shock and/or vibration criteria is applied, resonances may occur intern...
Page 38 - Figure 8. Recommended mounting
32 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C Z Y X Z Y X Figure 8. Recommended mounting
Page 39 - Vibration; b. Operating—abnormal; Acoustics
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 33 7.4.4.2 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 1.0 G RMS (0 to peak) 301– 500 Hz 0.5 G RMS (0 to peak)...
Page 41 - Mechanical specifications; Dimension Table; Figure 9. Mounting configuration dimensions
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 35 7.5 Mechanical specifications Refer to Figure 9 for detailed physical dimensions. See Section 11.4, “Drive mounting.”” S -Z- T // J H L B K [1] F [1] D E -Z- Mounting holes are 6-32 UNC 2B, three on each side and four on the bottom. Max screw penetration in...
Page 42 - About FIPS; Purpose
36 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 8.0 About FIPS The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, FIPS PUB 140-2, is a U.S. govern-ment computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules. It is titled “Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules”. The...
Page 43 - About self-encrypting drives; • Security Protocol Out; Data encryption; Admin SP
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 37 9.0 About self-encrypting drives Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) offer encryption and security services for the protection of stored data, com-monly known as “protection of data at rest.” These drives are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Enter...
Page 44 - Drive locking
38 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 9.2.2 Locking SP The Locking SP controls read/write access to the media and the cryptographic erase feature. Access to the Locking SP is available using the BandMasterX or EraseMaster passwords. Since the drive owner can define up to 16 data bands on the dr...
Page 45 - The download file must be signed and authenticated.; Power requirements
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 39 9.6 Cryptographic erase A significant feature of SEDs is the ability to perform a cryptographic erase. This involves the host telling the drive to change the data encryption key for a particular band. Once changed, the data is no longer recoverable since it...
Page 46 - Defect and error management; Drive internal defects/errors; Drive error recovery procedures
40 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 10.0 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 ...
Page 50 - Idle Read After Write
44 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 10.7 Idle Read After Write Idle Read After Write (IRAW) utilizes idle time to verify the integrity of recently written data. During idle periods, no active system requests, the drive reads recently written data from the media and compares it to valid write ...
Page 51 - Installation; Drive ID/option selection
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 45 11.0 Installation Cheetah 15K.7 FC disc drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or termi-nators on the drive. Simply plug the drive into the host’s 40-pin Fibre Channel backpanel connector (FC-SCA) — no cables are requ...
Page 52 - Cooling; Figure 11. Air flow
46 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 11.3 Cooling The host enclosure must dissipate heat from the drive. You should confirm that the host enclosure is designed to ensure that the drive operates within the temperature measurement guidelines described in Section 7.4.1. In some cases, forced airf...
Page 54 - Interface requirements; Fibre Channel link service frames; Link services supported; Basic link service frames
48 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives. Addi-tional information is provided in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 100293070). 12.1 FC-AL features This se...
Page 56 - Fibre Channel port login; Bytes
50 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.1.4 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 PN...
Page 57 - 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.
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 51 12.1.5 Fibre Channel port login accept Table 10 identifies the N_Port Login access payload values. 12.1.6 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) p...
Page 58 - Fibre Channel Process Login Accept; Table 12 lists Cheetah 15K.7 FC process login accept payload data.; Fibre Channel fabric login; Table 13 lists the fabric login payload from the drive.
52 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.1.7 Fibre Channel Process Login Accept Table 12 lists Cheetah 15K.7 FC process login accept payload data. 12.1.8 Fibre Channel fabric login Table 13 lists the fabric login payload from the drive. Table 12: Process Login Accept (ACC) payload Bytes 0-15 02...
Page 59 - Fibre Channel fabric accept login
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 53 12.1.9 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 60 - Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options; Dual port support; ing a soft address to prevent an address conflict.; SCSI commands supported; FC-AL options supported
54 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options Table 15 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives. 12.2 Dual port support Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives have two independent FC-AL ports. These ports may be connected on independent loops or on the...
Page 61 - Supported commands
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 55 Table 16: Supported commands Command code Supported (Y/N) [4] Command name Executable state of standard SCSI commands in the presence of LBA banding (applies to SED models only) Affects entire Drive (Y/N) User Data Accessed (Y/N) Affected LBA Unlocked ReadL...
Page 65 - Inquiry data; Mode Sense data; Default values
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 59 [3] Reference Mode Sense command 1Ah for mode pages supported. [4] Y = Yes. Command is supported. N = No. Command is not supported. A = Support is available on special request. 12.3.1 Inquiry data Table 17 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive shoul...
Page 70 - Miscellaneous operating features and conditions
64 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.4 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 supporte...
Page 71 - FC-AL physical interface; Physical characteristics; This section defines physical interface connector.; Physical description; Figure 13. Port bypass circuit physical interconnect; J1 interface connector
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 65 12.5 FC-AL physical interface Figure 12 shows the location of the J1 Fibre Channel single connection attachment (FC-SCA). Figure 14 pro-vides the dimensions of the FC-SCA connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provid...
Page 72 - Connector requirements; Berg; Electrical description
66 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.5.2 Connector requirements Table 23: Recommended mating SCA part numbers Part description Positions Part number Features AMP Vertical (SCA sequence) 40 787317-1 With polarization Berg 40 71781 With polarization Methode 40 512-220-91-101N With polarizatio...
Page 73 - *Short pins in mating backpanel connector.; FC-AL transmitters and receivers
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 67 Table 24: 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* -Parallel ...
Page 74 - The Fault LED Out signal is driven by the drive when:
68 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.5.6 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 s...
Page 75 - • Transmitter/receiver wrap test failure; Motor start controls
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 69 12.5.8 Active LED Out The Active LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 25. 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 limi...
Page 76 - Parallel Enclosure Services Interface (ESI)
70 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.5.11 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 lin...
Page 78 - Device control codes; Signal characteristics; TTL input characteristics; Table 29 provides the TTL characteristics.; Reserved for power failure warning.
72 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 12.5.12 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 ha...
Page 79 - Serial output voltage swing; Serial input voltage swing; AC coupled
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 73 12.6.2 LED driver signals Fault and Active LED signals are located in the FC-SCA connector (J1). See Table 30 for the output character-istics of the LED drive signals. 12.6.3 FC Differential output The serial output signal voltage characteristics are provid...
Page 80 - Typical
74 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C Figure 17 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 17. Receive eye diagram Table 33: Eye diagram data values Link rate 1 GH...
Page 81 - Index; Numerics
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C 75 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 68 3rd party reserve command 58 5 volt pins 68 A Abort Sequence (ABTS) 48 abort task set function 49 AC coupling 67 AC power requirements 21 ACA active status 64 ACA active, faulted initiator status 64 Accept (ACC) 48 acoustics 3...
Page 86 - See also
80 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. C security partitions 37 Security Protocol In 37 Security Protocol Out 37 Seek command 55 seek error defined 15 rate 14 Seek extended command 56 seek performance characteristics 10 seek time average typical 10 full stroke typical 10 single track typical 10 se...