Seagate Medalist 4340 User manual

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Medalist 4340, Medalist 3230
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Medalist 2120, Medalist 1721
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Medalist 1010
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ATA Interface Drives
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Product Manual
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Medalist 4340, Medalist 3230
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Medalist 2120, Medalist 1721
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Medalist 1010
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ATA Interface Drives
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Product Manual
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1997 Seagate Technology, Inc. All rights reserved
Publication Number: 20400054-001, Rev. A, July 1997
Seagate, Seagate Technology, the Seagate logo, Medalist and the
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Other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their
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Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings
or specifications. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Specification summary table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.0 Drive specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.1 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.2 Supported CHS translation geometries . . . . . . . . 6
1.2 Physical organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.4 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.5 Seek time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.6 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.7 Power Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.7.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.7.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.7.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.7.4 Power-management modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.8 Environmental tolerances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8.2 Temperature gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8.3 Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8.4 Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.8.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.8.6 Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.9 Drive acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.10 Electromagnetic susceptibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.11 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.12 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.12.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Medalist 4340, 3230, 2120, 1721 and 1010, Rev. A iii

1.12.2 Electromagnetic Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.12.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.0 Drive mounting and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . 17
2.2 Jumper settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.2.1 Master/slave configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.2.2 Alternate capacity jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.3 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.0 ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1 ATA interface signals and connector pins . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 ATA Interface commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2.1 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2.2 Identify Drive command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.2.3 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2.4 S.M.A.R.T. commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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Figures
Figure 1. Typical startup and operation current profile for the
ST34340A and ST33230A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 2. Typical startup and operation current profile for the
ST32120A, ST31721A and ST31010A . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 3. Alternate capacity jumper and master/slave jumpers . . 18
Figure 4. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view . . . . . . 19
Figure 5. I/O pins and supported ATA signals . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Medalist 4340, 3230, 2120, 1721 and 1010, Rev. A v

vi Medalist 4340, 3230, 2120, 1721 and 1010, Rev. A

Introduction
The Medalist4340 (ST34340A), Medalist 3230 (ST33230A), Medalist
2120 (ST32120A), Medalist 1721 (ST31721A) and Medalist 1010
(ST31010A) provide the following key features:
•Low power consumption
•Quiet operation
•Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting
•High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 16.7 Mbytes per
second) using PIO mode 4 and DMA mode 2
•Full-track multisector transfer capability without local processor inter-
vention
•128-Kbyte adaptive multisegmented cache
•State-of-the-art caching and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms
•Support for Read/Write Multiple commands
•Support for autodetection of master/slave drives that use cable select
(CSEL)
Medalist 4340, 3230, 2120, 1721 and 1010, Rev. A 1

Specification summary table
The specifications listed in this table are for quick reference. For details
on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section
of this manual.
Drive
Specification
ST34340A ST33230A ST32120A ST31721A ST31010A
Guaranteed Mbytes
(×106bytes) 4,303 3,227 2,111 1,704 1,082
Guaranteed sectors 8,404,830 6,303,024 4,124,736 3,329,424 2,114,784
Bytes per sector 512
Default sectors per
track 63
Default read/write
heads 15 16 16 16 16
Default cylinders 8,894 6,253 4,092 3,303 2,098
Physical read/write
heads 8 6 4 4 2
Discs 4 3 2 2 1
Recording density
(bits/inch max) 115,100
Track density
(tracks/inch) 5,950
Areal density
(Mbits/inch2)685
Spindle speed (RPM) 4,500
Internal data-transfer
rate (Mbits/sec max) 87.8
I/O data-transfer rate
(Mbytes/sec max) 16.7
ATA data-transfer
modes supported PIO modes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; Multiword DMAmodes 0, 1, 2
Cache buffer
(Kbytes) 128
Height (mm max) 26.2
Width (mm max) 102.4
Length (mm max) 146.8
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