F I R E B A L L S T 3 2 4 0 S QUANTUM Native| Translation ------+-----+-----+----- Form 3.5"/SLIMLINE Cylinders | | | Capacity form/unform 3228/ MB Heads 4| | | Seek time / track 10.0/ 2.0 ms Sector/track | | | Controller SCSI3 SI/ULTR/FA Precompensation Cache/Buffer 128 KB Landing Zone Data transfer rate 16.000 MB/S int Bytes/Sector 512 20.000 MB/S ext SYNC Recording method EPRML,PRML 16/17 operating | non-operating -------------+-------------- Supply voltage 5/12 V Temperature *C 5 55 | -40 65 Power: sleep W Humidity % 5 85 | 5 95 standby 1.0 W Altitude km -0.200 3.000| -0.200 12.000 idle 5.0 W Shock g 10 | 70 seek 10.0 W Rotation RPM 5400 read/write 7.0 W Acoustic dBA 32 spin-up 23.0 W ECC Bit 224BIT REED SOLOMON,SMART MTBF h 400000 Warranty Month 36 Lift/Lock/Park YES Certificates CE(EU),CISPR22,EN60950,FCC... ********************************************************************** L A Y O U T ********************************************************************** QUANTUM FIREBALL ST SCSI PRODUCT MANUAL 81-113134-01 2/97 +---------------------------------------------------------+ | |XX | |XXI | |XXN | |XXT | |XXE | |XXR | |XXF | |XXA | |XXC | A2 |XXE | A0+++++++RESV |XX | ++++++++ |XX | |XX | | | |XX Power | |XX +---------------------------------------------------------+ ********************************************************************** J U M P E R S ********************************************************************** QUANTUM FIREBALL ST SCSI PRODUCT MANUAL 81-113134-01 2/97 Jumper Setting ============== Jumper Options -------------- The configuration of three jumpers control the drive's mode of operation: -++-++-++-++-++-++-++- ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ +RESV A0 A1 A2 PK TE +LED - A2, A1, and A0 - SCSI Bus Device Identification - TE - Termination Enable - PK - Jumper Parking Position In addition to the hardware jumpers listed above, the Quantum Fire- ball ST SCSI hard disk drive supports software control of SCSI ID, Parity Enable, Wait Spin as determined by Mode Page 39h. Plug-and- play SCSI is also supported. The factory default is for SCSI ID to be controlled by hardware jumpers A2, A1, and A0 of JP1. A2/A1/A0 SCSI-Bus Device Identification ---------------------------------------- Used in combination, the jumper settings across A2, A1, and A0 de- termine the Fireball ST hard disk drive's SCSI-bus device identification (SCSI ID). By default, Quantum configures the drive with a SCSI ID of six; that is, with jumpers installed across the pins labeled A2 and A1, and no jumper installed across the pins labeled A0. +----------+-----------------------+ | SCSI ID | Jumpers | | | A2 | A1 | A0 | +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 0 | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN | +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 1 | OPEN | OPEN | CLOSED| +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 2 | OPEN | CLOSED| OPEN | +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 3 | OPEN | CLOSED| CLOSED| +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 4 | CLOSED| OPEN | OPEN | +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 5 | CLOSED| OPEN | CLOSED| +----------+-------+-------+-------+ |x 6 | CLOSED| CLOSED| OPEN | +----------+-------+-------+-------+ | 7 | CLOSED| CLOSED| CLOSED| +----------+-------+-------+-------+ The SCSI bus supports up to eigth devices, including the host system. A device's identification number determines its priority and must be unique in the system. TE SCSI Bus Termination Enable Jumper ------------------------------------- This jumper enables SCSI bus active termination on the drive when installed (TE=1). Only the two SCSI peripherals located at the ends of the SCSI bus should have termination enabled. When removed (PK position may be used to store the jumper), the termination circuit is disabled. In the disabled mode, each individual SCSI bus line is electrically isolated from the termination source. The method allows easier enable and disable termination. ********************************************************************** I N S T A L L ********************************************************************** QUANTUM FIREBALL ST SCSI PRODUCT MANUAL 81-113134-01 2/97 Notes on Installation ===================== Installation direction ---------------------- horizontally vertically +-----------------+ +--+ +--+ | | | +-----+ +-----+ | | | | | | | | | +-+-----------------+-+ | | | | | | +---------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---------------------+ | +-----+ +-----+ | +-+-----------------+-+ +--+ +--+ | | | | +-----------------+ The drive will operate in all axis (6 directions). Orientation ----------- The mounting holes on the Fireball ST ard disk drive allow the drive to be mounted in any orientation. Mounting -------- For mounting, #6-32 UNC screws are recommended. CAUTION: The PCB is very close to the mounting holes. Do not exceed the specified length (3.5 mm, side 4 mm) for the mounting screws. The specified screw length allows full use of the mounting-hole threads, while avoiding damaging or placing unwanted stress on the PCB. To avoid stripping the mounting-hole threads, the maximum torque applied to the screws must not exceed 8 inch-pounds. A maximum screw length of 0.25 inches may be used. Clearance --------- Clearance from the drive - except mounting surfaces - to any other surface must be 0.05 inches minimum. Ventilation ----------- The Fireball ST hard disk drive operates without a cooling fan, provided the ambient air temperature does not exceed 131*F (55*C) at any point along the drive form factor envelope. Power Sequencing ---------------- You may apply the power in any order or manner, or short or open either the power or power-return line with no loss of data or damage to the disk drive. However, data may be lost in the sector being written at the time of power loss. The drive can withstand transient voltages of +10% to -100% from nominal while powering up or down. Disk Caching ------------ The Fireball ST hard disk drive incorporates DisCache, a 70K disk cache, to enhance drive performance. This integrated feature can significantly improve system throughput. Read and write caching can be enabled or disabled using the MODE SELECT command. Acoustics --------- +-----------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Operating Mode | Measured Noise | Distance | +-----------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Idle On Track | 32 dBA sound pressure | 1 m | | typical | 3.6 Bels (sound power)| 39.3 in. | +-----------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Idle On Track | 35 dBA sound pressure | 39.3 in | | maximum | 3.9 Bels (sound power)| (1 m) | +-----------------+-----------------------+----------+ Automatic Actuator Lock ----------------------- To ensure data integrity and prevent damage during shipment, the drive uses a dedicated landing zone and Quantum's patented AIRLOCK. The AIRLOCK holds the headstack in the landing zone whenever the disks are not rotating. It consists of an air vane mounted near the perimeter of the disk stack and a locking arm that restrains the actuator arm assembly. When DC power is applied to the motor and the disk stack rotates, the rotation generates an airflow on the surface of the disk. As the flow of air across the air vane increases with disk rotation, the locking arm pivots away from the actuator arm, enabling the headstack to move out of the landing. When DC power is removed from the motor, an electric return mechanism automatically pulls the actuator into the landing zone, where the AIRLOCK holds it in place. Connectors ---------- J1 is a two section combination connector. The drive's DC power is applied to section A. The SCSI interface (50-pin) uses section B. The connector is mounted on the back edge of the printed-circuit (PCB). A key slot on the header prevents the incorrect installation of the header connector on the SCSI cable. To prevent the header connector on the SCSI cable from being plugged in backwards, use only a keyed header connector. +----------------------------------------+ | | | | | +-----J1--Section-B----------Section-A | | |+-------------------------++4-3-2-1+| | | ||oooooooooooooooooooooooo1||O O O O|| | | ||ooooooooooooooooooooooooo|| || | | |+-------------------------++-------+| | +-+------------------------------------+-+ Recommended header connector and strain relief: 50-pin connector base part AMP P/N 1-746195-2 or equivalent 50-pin connector strain relief AMP P/N 499508-2 or equivalent Recommended mating connector and their part numbers: 4-pin connector (J11 section A) AMP P/N 1-480424-0 or equivalent Loose-piece contacts AMP P/N VS 60619-4 or equivalent Strip contacts AMP P/N VS 61117-4 or equivalent -------------------+ --+ +------------+| pin 1 +12 VDC 1| | 4 3 2 1 || pin 2 +12 Volts Return -+ +------------+| pin 3 + 5 Volts Return ------------------+ pin 4 + 5 VDC SCSI 14-Pin Jumper/Option Connector ----------------------------------- The 14 pin connector provides jumper options for a remote ID selector and LED. The recommended mating connector is the Fusjitsu 720M Series (Housing FCN-723J014-G/2M, Contact FCN-723J-TIAM) or equivalent. A remote LED may be connected between pin 12 (+LED) and pin 11 (-LED). No external resistor is required - current is limited for the 5 volt line internally. DC Motor Assembly ----------------- Integral with the base casting, the DC motor assembly is a fixed- shaft, brushless DC spindle motor that drives the counter-clockwise rotation of the disks. Air Filtration -------------- The Fireball ST hard disk drives are Winchester-type drives. The heads fly very close to the media surface. Therefore, it is essential that the air circulating within the drive be kept free of particles. Quantum assembles the drive in a Class-100, purified air environment, then seals the drive with a metal cover. When the drive is in use, the rotation of the disks forces the air inside of the drive through an internal 0.3 micron filter. ********************************************************************** F E A T U R E S ********************************************************************** QUANTUM FIREBALL ST SCSI PRODUCT MANUAL 81-113134-01 2/97 Product Overview ---------------- Quantum's Fireball ST SCSI hard disk drives are a part of a family of high-performance, 1-inch-high, hard disk drives manufactured to meet the highest product quality standards. Fireball hard disk drives use nonremovable, 3 -inch hard disks and are available with a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-2, 3). The Fireball ST SCSI hard disk drives feature an embedded SCSI drive controller and use SCSI commands to optimize system performance. Because the drive manages media defects and error recovery internally, these operations are fully transparent to the user. The innovative design of Fireball ST SCSI hard disk drives enables Quantum to produce a family of low-cost, high-reliability drives. Performance: Average rotational latency of 5.56 ms 128K buffer with 70K dynamic segmentation cache. Look-ahead DisCache feature with continues prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities. Read-on-arrival firmware ECC-on-the-fly 1:1 interleave on read/write operations SCSI-bus active termination SCSI-bus active negation drivers Formatted Capacity ------------------ At the factory, the Fireball ST SCSI receives a low-level format that creates the actual tracks and sectors on the drive. Reliability ----------- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): 400,000 Power On Hours (POH), typical usage The Quantum MTBF numbers represent Bell-Core MTBF TR-TSY-000332 predictions and represent the minimum MTBF that Quantum or a customer would expect from the drive. Preventive Maintenance (PM): Not required Start/Stop: 40,000 cycles (minimum) Component Life: 5 Years Error Detection and Correction ------------------------------ As disk drive areal densities increase, obtaining extremely low error rates requires a new generation of sophisticated error-correction codes. Quantum Fireball ST SCSI series hard disk drives implement 224-bit trible burst Reed-Solomon error-correction techniques to reduce the uncorrectable read error rate to less than one bit in 1 x 10(14) bits read. When errors occurs, an automatic retry and a more rigorous double- burst correction algorithm enable the correction of any sector with two bursts of three incorrect bytes each or up to six multiple random one byte burst errors. In addition to these advanced error correction capabilities, the drive's additional cross-checking code and algorithm double checks the main ECC correction to greatly re- duce the probability of miscorrection. Defect Management ----------------- The Fireball ST SCSI allocate 32 sectors per 65,504 sectors. In the factory, the media is scanned for defects. If a sector on a cylinder is found to be defective, the address of the sector is added to the drive's defect list. Sectors located physically sub- sequent to the defective sector are assigned logical block addresses such that a sequential ordering of logical blocks maintained. This inline sparing technique is employed in an attempt to eliminate slow data transfer that would result from a single defective sector on a cylinder. If more than 32 sectors are found defective within 65,504 sectors, the above inline sparing technique is applied to the 32 sectors only. The remaining defective sectors are replaced with the nearest available pool of spares. Data Transfer Rates ------------------- Data is transferred from the disk to the read buffer at a rate up to 132 MB/s in bursts. Data is transferred from the read buffer to the SCSI bus at a rate of up to 20 MB/sec (Ultra SCSI). Track and Cylinder Skewing -------------------------- Track and cylinder skewing in the Fireball ST SCSI minimizes latency time and thus increases data throughput. Track Skewing ------------- Track skewing reduces the latency time that results when the drive must switch read/write heads to access sequential data. A track skew is employed such that the next logical sector of data to be accessed will be under the read/write head once the head switch is made and the data is ready to be accessed. Thus, when sequential data is on the same cylinder but on a different disk surface, a head switch is needed but not a seek. Since the sequential head-switch time is well defined on the Fireball ST SCSI, the sector addresses can be optimally positioned across track boundaries to minimize the latency time during a head switch. Cylinder Skewing ---------------- Cylinder Skewing also is used to minimize the latency tome associated with a single-cylinder seek. The next logical sector of data that crosses a cylinder boundary is positioned on the drive such that after a single-cylinder seek is performed, and when the drive is ready to continue accessing data, the sector to be accessed is positioned directly under the read/write head. Therefore, the cylinder skew takes place between the last sector of data on the last head of a cylinder and the first sector of data on the first head of the next cylinder. Since single-cylinder seeks are well defined on the Fireball ST SCSI, the sector addresses can be optimally positioned across cylinder boundaries to minimize the latency time associate with a single-cylinder seek. Plug-and-Play SCSI ------------------ Plug-and-Play SCSI firmware simplifies disk drive installation by allowing automatic SCSI ID configuration without the use of manual jumper settings. This feature supports the plug-and-play SCSI initiative developed by major computer, operating system, and peripheral manufacturers. Plug-and-Play SCSI incorporates a new protocol that can automatically assign a SCSI device ID to participating devices. There are no jumpers or switches to set; no user involvement is necessary. Of course, Fireball drives are fully compatible with pre-plug-and-play hosts and targets. The default setting for Quantum Fireball ST drives is plug-and-play SCSI enabled. Plug-and-Play SCSI Masters and Slaves ------------------------------------- A plug-and-play SCSI Master is a device that is capable of assigning a SCSI ID. Most systems have only one Master. A plug-and-play SCSI Slave is a device that is capable of having a SCSI ID assigned to it by a plug-and-play Master. Most plug-and-play SCSI devices have a default SCSI ID that they use in non-plug-and-play systems; however, they do not use the default ID until they have detected selection by a non-plug-and-play initiator. Once this default ID has been used, the device is said to have "confirmed" its default ID. Before confirmation, the plug-and-play SCSI device delays its response to a selection for 4 ms. (This delay permits a plug-and-play SCSI Master to scan the SCSI bus for plug- and-play SCSI tolerant devices. Once confirmed, plug-and-play SCSI devices act like "normal" SCSI devices. Plug-and-Play SCSI Tolerant Devices ----------------------------------- A device is plug-and-play SCSI tolerant if it is compatible with the plug-and-play protocol (most SCSI devices fall within this category). A plug-and-play SCSI tolerant device can be detected if it: - Enables responding to selections within 5 seconds after power on - Enables responding to selections within 250 ms after reset - Actually responds to a selection (by asserting BSY) within 1 ms - Implements the hard reset alternative