Seagate Medalist 6540 User manual

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Medalist 6540
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Medalist 5130
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Medalist 3220
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Ultra ATA Interface Drives
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Product Manual
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Medalist 6540 (ST36540A)
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Medalist 5130 (ST35130A)
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Medalist 3220 (ST33220A)
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Ultra ATA Interface Drives
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Product Manual
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1997 Seagate Technology, Inc. All rights reserved
Publication Number: 20400070-001, Rev. A, August 1997
Seagate, Seagate Technology, the Seagate logo, Medalist and the
Medalist logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc.
Other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their
owners.
Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings
or specifications. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any
form without written permission from Seagate Technology, Inc.

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.7.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.8.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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
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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 . . . . . . . 10
Figure 2. Alternate capacity jumper and master/slave jumpers . . 18
Figure 3. Drive mounting dimensions—top, side and end view . . . 19
Figure 4. I/O pins and supported ATA signals . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Introduction
The Medalist6540 (ST36540A), Medalist 5130 (ST35130A) and
Medalist 3220 (ST33220A) 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 33.3 Mbytes per
second) using Ultra DMA mode 2
•Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without local processor
intervention
•128-Kbytes cache
•State-of-the-art caching and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms
•Support for Read Multiple and Write Multiple commands
•Support for autodetection of master/slave drives that use cable select
(CSEL)
•These drives use MR recording heads and PRML technology, which
provides the drives with increased areal density.
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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 ST36540A ST35130A ST33220A
Guaranteed Mbytes (×106bytes) 6,505 5,121 3,227
Guaranteed sectors 12,706,470 10,002,825 6,303,024
Bytes per sector 512
Default sectors per track 63
Default read/write heads 15 15 16
Default cylinders 13,446 10,585 6,253
Physical read/write heads 8 6 4
Discs 4 3 2
Recording density (bits/inch max) 153,870
Track density (tracks/inch) 8,143
Areal density (Mbits/inch2 max) 1,235
Spindle speed (RPM) 4,490
Internal data-transfer rate
(Mbits/sec max) 106.84
I/O data-transfer rate
(Mbytes/sec max) 33.3
ATAdata-transfer modes
supported PIO modes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; Multiword DMAmodes 0, 1, 2
Ultra DMAmodes 0, 1, 2;
Cache buffer (Kbytes) 128
Height (mm max) 26.1
Width (mm max) 102.3
Length (mm max) 146.8
Weight (grams typical) 544
Track-to-track seek time
(msec typical) 1.1 (read), 1.1 (write)
Average seek time
(msec typical) 11.0 (read), 13.0 (write)
Full-stroke seek time
(msec typical) 18.0 (read), 22.0 (write)
Average latency (msec) 6.68
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