IBM DARA-225000, DARA-218000, DARA-215000, DARA-212000, DARA-209000 Installation guide

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Installation guide

Travelstar 25GS, 18GT,
& 12GN

ATA/IDE

DARA-218000DARA-225000Model:
DARA-212000DARA-215000
DARA-206000DARA-209000

Introduction

IBM

Thank you for purchasing an IBM advanced-technology Travelstar hard disk drive. By purchasing
this drive, you acknowledge the following:

Ÿ you have read and agreed to the conditions listed on the ShopIBM Web site
Ÿ you are a system integrator with the necessary knowledge to install IBM DARA-2xxxxx hard

drives

Ÿ you understand that the system into which you will be installing the IBM DARA-2xxxxx drive

must be capable of supporting hard drives of 8 GB or greater capacity with or without BIOS
upgrades

For successful installation please note the following:

Ÿ The drive must be left in its protective anti-static bag and shipping box until you are ready to

install it.

Ÿ Retain the shipping box and all packaging materials after installation. This box has been

designed to ensure safe shipment of the drive.

Ÿ This drive does not come with any installation screws, brackets, cabling, or software. You may

need special brackets and other items to successfully install this drive.

This document is subject to change without notice.

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Handling precautions

Ÿ Do not apply pressure on the drive during handling or installation.

Ÿ Do not cover the breather hole! Covering the breather hole may result in loss of

data.

Ÿ Always handle the drive with care to prevent damage from shock, vibration, or

electrostatic discharge.

Ÿ Handle the drive carefully by the edges. Do not touch any exposed printed circuit

board.

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BIOS settings for DARA-225000, DARA-218000, DARA-215000, DARA-212000, and DARA-209000

IMPORTANT: Please read this entire BIOS settings section before you begin installation.
Before you begin installation, make sure that the system into which you will be installing this drive has a

BIOS capable of supporting a hard drive of 8.4 GB or greater capacity. Some older system BIOS may
have difficulty recognizing a drive of this capacity and configuration at initial power on. Some BIOS may
simply need to be upgraded in order to accept a hard drive of 8.4 GB or greater capacity. There are
software programs, such as Disk Manager, that can help upgrade the BIOS by replacing the disk drive
driver software of the system BIOS with a software driver that will allow the system to function with drives
of larger capacity. A software program such as Disk Manager installs the driver which enables use of the
full capacity of the drive. The Disk Manager software program can be downloaded from the IBM Web
site at the following address:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm

If you are unsure about the capability of your system BIOS to support this hard drive, you may download
Disk Manager onto a floppy disk before you begin drive installation.

the system allows BIOS access

If

If the system allows access to its BIOS settings, set the disk drive setting in the BIOS to AUTO.

the system boots up but does not support or properly recognize the new drive capacity

If

Some older BIOS will allow the system to boot up but not recognize a drive of 8.4 GB or higher
capacity. Some BIOS will allow the system to boot up but will only recognize the drive as having a
very low capacity. In this case, you may download the Disk Manager software program from the IBM
Web site address shown above, to replace the disk drive driver software of the system’s BIOS with a
software driver that will allow the system to use the drive’s full capacity.

the system locks up and will not boot up

If

Some older systems do not recognize hard drives with 16 heads. In this case, as the system
integrator/ drive installer, you may either upgrade the system BIOS to accept a 16-head drive or install
a drive of lower capacity.

Customers who experience problems installing this drive in a system may contact

IBM Technology Group Support Center

888.426.5214 (toll-free in the United States) or 507.286.5825
[e-mail]

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Mounting hole location

The location and size of the mounting holes are shown below. All dimensions are in millimeters unless
noted otherwise.

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–300 to 12,000 m (40,000 ft)

–300 to 3,000 m (10,000 ft)

Altitude

20°C per hour

20°C per hour

Maximum temperature gradient

–40 to 65°C

5 to 55°C

Temperature range

40.0°C (non-condensing)

29.4°C (non-condensing)

Maximum wet bulb temperature

Nonoperating Conditions

Operating Conditions

Pin

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Mounting orientation

The drive will operate in all six (6) axes. The drive will operate within the specified error rates when tilted
±5 degrees from these positions. Performance and error rates will stay within specification limits if the
drive is operated in the other permissible orientations from which it was formatted. Thus, a drive for­matted in a horizontal orientation will be able to run vertically and vice versa.

The recommended mounting screw thread length is 3.0 mm for bottom mounitng and 3.5 mm for hori­zontal mounting.

The system integrator is responsible for mounting the drive securely using appropriate screws or equi­valent mounting hardware to prevent excessive motion or vibration of the drive during seek operation or
spindle rotation.

Environmental characteristics

The system must provide sufficient air movement to maintain a surface temperature below 60°C at the
center of the top cover and below 63°C at the center of the card of the drive

.

Refer to the separate data sheet enclosed with this disk drive for additional specifications.

Interface connector

43

44

Pin
19

22

1

AC

2

D

B

Note: Pin position 20 is left blank for correct connector insertion. Pin positions A, B, and D are used for
drive address setting.

Operating mode at power on

The device goes to idle mode after power on or hard reset as an initial state. Initial state may be
changed to Standby mode using pin C on the interface connector.

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DA02

36

35

32

31

28

IORDY(*

27

24

–

DIOW(*

23

Key

(20)

GND

19

16

15

12

11

08

DD05

07

04

03

–DIOW

STOP

–DIOW

STOP

definition

Ultra DMA)

. "Reserve" designates reserved pins that must be left unconnected.

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Signal definition

The pin assignments of interface signals are listed in the following table

01

TTLI–RESET

3-stateI/ODD07

05

3-stateI/ODD06

06

3-stateI/O

09

3-stateI/ODD04

10

3-stateI/ODD03

13

3-stateI/ODD02

14

3-stateI/ODD01

17

21

3-stateI/ODD00

3-stateODMARQ

18

22

TTLI

25

–DIOR(*

TTLI

26

ODO

29

TTLI–DMACK

30

3-stateOINTRQ

33

TTLIDA01

34

TTLIDA00

37

41

+5V

TTLI–CS0

(reserve)44ground43

:

GND02

GND
GND
GND

GND

–CS138

GND40ODI/O–DASP

TypeI/OSIGNALPINTypeI/OSIGNALPIN

3-stateI/ODD08
3-stateI/ODD09
3-stateI/ODD10
3-stateI/ODD11
3-stateI/ODD12
3-stateI/ODD13
3-stateI/ODD14
3-stateI/ODD15

TTLICSEL

ODO–HIOCS16

ODI/O–PDIAG
TTLI
TTLI

power+5V motor42power

Notes:

1. "O" designates an output from the Drive.

2. "I" designates an input to the Drive.

3. "I/O" designates an input/output common.

4. "OD" designates Open-Drain output.

5. The signal lines marked with (*) are redefined during the Ultra DMA protocol to provide special func­tions. These lines change from the conventional to special definitions at the moment the Host de­cides to allow a DMA burst if the Ultra DMA transfer mode was previously chosen via SetFeatures.
The Drive becomes aware of this change upon assertion of the –DMACK line. These lines revert
back to their original definitions upon the deassertion of –DMACK at the termination of the DMA
burst.

Conventional

IORDY
–DIOR

–DIOR
IORDY

Write
operation

Read
operation

Special definition (for

–DDMARDY
HSTROBE

–HDMARDY
DSTROBE

6. "Power" designates a power supply to the drive.

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Setting the drive address

The drive address is determined by the placement of jumpers on the pins on the right side of the interface
connector as shown below. The default setting at shipment is for Device 0.

If Cable Select is chosen, the drive address depends on the state of pin 28 (see illustration on page 3) of
the AT interface cable. If pin 28 is ground or low, the drive is a Device 0. If pin 28 is open or high, the
drive is a Device 1.

No Jumper
(Master)

Jumper Pos-1
(Slave)

Jumper Pos-3
(Cable Select)

Never Attach A
Jumper Here!

Never Attach A
Jumper Here!

Data loss on power off

Ÿ The drive retains recorded data under all non-write operations.
Ÿ No more than one sector can be lost by power down during write operation while write cache is dis-

abled.

Ÿ Power off during a write operation may create an incomplete sector which will report a hard data er-

ror when read. The sector can be recovered by a rewrite operation.

Ÿ A hard reset does not cause any data loss.

Electromagnetic compatibility

The drive, when installed in a suitable enclosure and exercised with a random accessing routine at maxi­mum data rate, meets the following worldwide EMC requirements:

Ÿ United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rules and Regulations (Class B), Part

15.

Ÿ European Economic Community (EEC) directive number 76/889 related to the control of radio fre-

quency interference and the Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE) requirements of Germany
(GOP).

IBM will provide technical support to assist users in complying with the EMC requirements

.

Safety

This product does not contain any known or suspected carcinogens.
This product meets or exceeds all applicable government environmental regulations in the country of

origin. None of the packaging used for the shipment of the product uses controlled CFCs in the

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manufacturing process. None of the manufacturing processes for disk drive parts or assemblies, includ­ing printed circuit boards, use controlled CFC materials.

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OEM Hard Disk Drive Specifications for DARA-2xxxxx (6GB - 25GB) 2.5 inch hard disk

drive with ATA interface, Revision 2.1
This document is not a substitute for the full production specification, which should be used

when detailed information is required.
Data is subject to change without notice.
Date: 1st August, 2000

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