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CONVEX
Elite 3 Disc Drive
Service Guide
Order No. DHW-261
First Edition
April 1993
CONVEX Press
Richardson, Texas
United States of America

CONVEX
Elite 3 Disc Drive
Service Guide
Order No. DHW-261
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Revision information for
CONVEX
Elite 3 Disc Drive
Service Guide
Edition DocumentNo. Description
First 081-010230-000 Released April
1993.

Contents
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Purpose and audience ................................................................ xi
Using this guide .......................................................................... xi
Notational conventions .............................................................. xi
Notes
and cautions .................................................................... xii
Associated documents .............................................................. xii
Orderingdocuments ................................................................. xii
Technical assistance .................................................................. xiii
FCC notice .................................................................................. xiii
Electrostatic discharge protection .......................................... xiii
1 Description and specifications............... 1
Drive specifications ..................................................................... 1
de power requirements ......................................................... 3
Front panel indicators and switches ................................... 4
Control board jumpers .......................................................... 6
I/0 board jumpers ................................................................. 8
Power supply specifications ....................................................... 9
Elite 3 chassis ...............................................................................
11
2 Unpacking and installation ................... 13
Unpacking and inspection ....................................................... 13
Inspection .............................................................................. 13
Unpacking ............................................................................. 13
Damage claims ..................................................................... 14
Preparations .......................................................................... 14
Installing power strip
and disc tray .................................. 14
Installation .................................................................................. 14
Installing the Elite 3chassis ................................................ 16
Connecting a single drive ................................................... 17
Connecting multiple disc drives ........................................ 20
Physical configuration ......................................................... 22
3 Integration and testing .......................... 27
Software integration .................................................................. 27
General integration procedure ........................................... 27
Contents v

Iioconfig file .......................................................................... 28
I etc/ disktab .......................................................................... 30
Testing the Elite 3disc drive with idcfmt ............................ 31
Verifying format ................................................................... 31
Formattinga drive ............................................................... 32
4 Maintenance and IPB ............................ 33
Troubleshooting .......................................................................... 33
Elite 3 disc driveerrorcodes ............................................... 33
Fault symptomcode (FSC) .................................................. 35
Sector errors .......................................................................... 44
FSC codes reported during autoconf ............................. 45
WM messages ..................................................................... 45
Determiningdisc usage ....................................................... 46
Removal
and replacement procedures ................................... 48
Elite 3 chassis ........................................................................ 48
Disc drive ............................................................................... 48
Powersupply ........................................................................ 49
Operatorpanel ...................................................................... 49
Fan assembly ......................................................................... 50
Airfilter ................................................................................. 51
Illustrated partsbreakdown (IPB) ........................................... 52
A idcfmt (1 D) man page .......................... 55
vi Elite 3 Disc Drive Service Guide

Figures
Figure 1
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Figure 3
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Figure 7
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Figure 12
Figure 13
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Figure 16
Figure 17
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Figure 19
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Figure21
Figure22
Figure23
Figure24
Front panel ...................................................................... 4
Control board jumperlocation..................................... 6
J/O board jumperlocations.......................................... 8
Power
supply component location............................ 10
Elite 3 chassis ................................................................ 12
Additional powerstriplocation................................. 15
Elite 3 disc tray.............................................................. 16
Connectinga single drive............................................ 17
JDC bulkhead
port assignmentsfor C3200/C3400. 18
JDC bulkhead portassignments for C3800............... 19
Connecting multipledrives........................................ 21
JDC maximumdrive configuration........................... 23
Expansion cabinet drivelocations for 32 drives...... 24
Expansion cabinet drivelocations for 16 drives...... 25
/ioconfig example 1..................................................... 29
/ioconfigexample2..................................................... 29
Example I etc/ disktab ................................................. 30
WM device failure message...................................... 45
WM completionmessage.......................................... 46
Determiningdisc usage
with df I grep.................. 46
Determining disc usage from
/etc/fstab .................. 47
Elite 3 operator panel cable routing........................... 50
Air filter access.............................................................. 51
Illustrated parts breakdown(IPB) ............................. 52
Figures vii

Tables
Table 1
Table2
Table3
Table4
Tables
Table6
Table 7
Table8
Table9
Table
10
Table 11
Table 12
Table 13
Drive specifications ......................................................... 1
Elite 3 disc drive de
power requirements..................... 3
Elite 3 front panel indicators
and switches.................. 5
Control board jumperblock
J12 pin assignments....... 7
1/0 board jumperblock pin assignments.................... 8
Power supplycharacteristics ...............
.. ........................ 9
Power supply voltage specifications...........................
10
Power supply pin chart.................................................. 11
I etc/ disktab description ............ .. ................................ 30
Elite 3 disc drive error codes........................................ 34
FSC field descriptions .. ................................................. 35
FSC descriptions ............................................................ 36
IPB partslist.................................................................... 53
Tables ix

Preface
Purpose and
audience
Notational
conventions
The CONVEX Elite 3 Disc Drive Service Guide provides a general
overviewoftheSeagateElite3discdriveand related equipment.
This guide describes how
to:
• Install the Elite 3 disc drive and related equipment
• Integrate the Elite 3 disc drive into the CONVEX operating
system (ConvexOS)
This document is intended for:
• CONVEX customer support engineers and CONVEX
manufacturing personnel
• CONVEX customers who install and maintain their own
Elite 3 disc drives and related equipment
This section discusses notational conventions used
in this book.
Bold mono space In command examples, text shown in bold
monospace identifies user input that must
be typed exactly as shown.
Mono space
Italic
In paragraph text, monospace identifies:
• Command names
• System calls
• Data structures and types
In command examples,
monospace
identifies command output, includingerror
messages.
Incommandsyntaxdiagrams, text
shown in
monospace must be typed exactly as
shown.
In paragraph text,
italic identifies:
Preface xi