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Thank you for your interest in Maxtor hard disk drives. This manual provides technical information for OEM engi-
neers and systems integrators regarding the installation and use of Maxtor hard drives. Drive repair should be per-
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800-2MAXTOR or 303-678-2045.
CAUTION: Maxtor hard drives are precision products. Failure to follow these precautions and guidelines outlined
here may lead to product failure, damage and invalidation of all warranties.
1BEFORE unpacking or handling a drive, take all proper electro-static discharge (ESD) precautions,
including personnel and equipment grounding. Stand-alone drives are sensitive to ESD damage.
2BEFORE removing drives from their packing material, allow them to reach room temperature.
3During handling, NEVER drop, jar, or bump a drive.
4Once a drive is removed from the Maxtor shipping container, IMMEDIATELY secure the drive through
its mounting holes within a chassis. Otherwise, store the drive on a padded, grounded, antistatic surface.
5NEVER switch DC power onto the drive by plugging an electrically live DC source cable into the
drive's connector. NEVER connect a live bus to the drive's interface connector. (P68 only)
Please do not remove or cover up Maxtor factory-installed drive labels. They contain information required should the
drive ever need repair.
Regulatory Statements
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of
the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential
installation. Any modifications of this device - unless expressly approved by the manufacturer - can void the user’s
authority to operate this equipment under Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two condi-
tions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference and (2) This device must accept any interference that may
cause undesirable operation.
This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance
with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Howerver, there is no guarantee that
interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or
television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to
correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
- Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
- Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
- Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
- Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
NOTE: Additional information on the need to interconnect the device with shielded (data) cables or the need for special devices, such
as ferrite beads on cables, is required if such means of interference suppression was used in the qualification test for the device. This
information will vary from device to device and needs to be obtained from the EMC group or product manager.
This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.
Figure 6-1 ST and DT CLocking ..................................................................................... 6-11
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List of Tables
Table 3-1SCSI ID Selection on Option Connector (68-Pin SCSI Connector Drives). 3-8
Table 3-2SCSI ID Pin Assignments (SCA-2 Connector Versions of the Disk Drive). 3-12
Table 3-3Spin Up on Power On Options................................................................. 3-13
Table A-5SCSI-3 Quick Reference – Sense Keys....................................................... A-5
Table A-6SCSI-3 Quick Reference – Status Codes.................................................... A-5
Table B-1Transfer Period Factor Field Values When PARL = 1 ................................ B-1
Table B-2Transfer Period Factor Field Values When PARL = 0 ................................ B-2
Table B-3Settings for the QAS, DT, and IU Fields of the Negotiated Rate
Information Page (INQUIRY Command) ................................................. B-2
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ABOUT THIS MANUAL
This chapter gives an overview of the contents of this manual, including the intended
audience, how the manual is organized, terminology and conventions, and references.
1.1AUDIENCE
The Maxtor Atlas 10K V Product Manual is intended for reference by original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that are integrating the disk drive into a system or
subsystem, developers, and disk drive installers. Its primary audience is the OEM
technical staff that makes disk drive purchase and configuration decisions, and system
integrators that are responsible for the SCSI interface. This manual is not intended for
end-users and is not a users manual or an installation guide. The manual provides
information about installation, interface command implementation, maintenance, and
gives the general specifications of the drive.
1.2MANUAL ORGANIZATION
Chapter 1
This manual is organized into the following chapters:
• Chapter 1 – About This Manual
• Chapter 2 – General Description
• Chapter 3 – Installation
• Chapter 4 – Specifications
• Chapter 5 – SCSI Description
• Chapter 6 – Feature Descriptions
• Appendix A – Quick Reference
• Appendix B – Negotiated Page Information Page Reference
• Glossary
•Index
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1.3TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS
In the Glossary at the back of this manual, you can find definitions for many of the
terms used in this manual. In addition, the following abbreviations are used in this
manual:
• ASICapplication-specific integrated circuit
• Kbpithousands of bits per inch
•dBdecibels
• dBAdecibels, A weighted
• ECCerror correcting code
• Kfcithousands of flux changes per inch
•Gbitgigabit
•GBgigabyte
•Hzhertz
•KBkilobytes
• LSBleast significant bit
•LVDSlow voltage differential SCSI
•mA milliamperes
• MBmegabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring to disk
transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all
other cases)
• Mbit/s megabits per second
• MB/smegabytes per second
• MHzmegahertz
•ms milliseconds
• MSB most significant bit
• mVmillivolts
• nsnanoseconds
• SCSISmall Computer System Interface
• tpitracks per inch
•msmicroseconds
•Vvolts
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The typographical and naming conventions used in this manual are listed below.
Conventions that are unique to a specific table appear in the notes that follow that
table.
Typographical Conventions:
• Names of Bits: Bit names are presented in initial capitals. An example is
the Host Software Reset Bit.
• Commands: Firmware commands are listed as all capitals. An example is
MODE SELECT.
• Parameters: Parameters are given as initial capitals when spelled out, and
are given as all capitals when abbreviated. Examples are Prefetch Enable
(PE) and Cache Enable (CE).
• Hexadecimal Notation: The hexadecimal notation is given in 9-point
subscript form. An example is 30
.
H
• Signal Negation: A signal that is non-active or is in its non-asserted state.
• Messages: A message that is sent from the drive to the host is listed in all
capitals. An example is BUS DEVICE RESET.
Naming Conventions:
• Host: In general, the system in which the drive resides is referred to as
the host.
• Computer Voice: This refers to items you type at the computer
keyboard. These items are listed in 10-point, all capitals, Courier font.
An example is FORMAT.
1.4REFERENCES
For additional information about the SCSI interface, refer to:
• ANSI Small Computer System Interface-2 (SCSI-2) Specification, ANSI
X3T9.2/86-109, Revision 10k.
• ANSI Small Computer System Interface-3 (SCSI-3) Specification, ANSI
X3T10, August 1994.
This chapter summarizes the general functions and key features of the Maxtor
Atlas 10K V family of hard disk drives, as well as the applicable standards and
regulations.
2.1PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drives are part of a family of high performance,
1-inch-high hard disk drives manufactured to meet the highest product quality
standards. There are currently three models in the Maxtor Atlas 10K V series, with
capacities of 73.5, 147.1, and 300 gigabytes (GB). These hard disk drives use
nonremovable, 84 mm diameter hard disks and are available with the following SCSI
configurations:
The Maxtor Atlas 10K V 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 the Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drives enables Maxtor to
produce a family of low-cost, high-reliability drives.
2.2KEY FEATURES
The Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drive includes the following key features:
• Average seek time of 4.0 ms (1D) , 4.2 (2D) and 4.4 (4D) for reads
• Average seek time of 4.5 ms (1D), 4.7 (2D), and 4.9 ms (4D) for writes
• 10,000 RPM rotational speed
• Average rotational latency of 3 ms
• 8 MB CACHE (ECC Protected) buffer. Look-ahead DisCache feature
with continuous prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities
• Read-on-arrival firmware
• Tagged Command Queuing with Reordering
•ECC on-the-fly
• Highly automated SCSI protocol (including Auto Read/Write)
• 1:1 interleave on read/write operations
• High performance Ultra320 SCSI interface
• SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 supported
• Ultra 320 SCSI
• Ultra 160 SCSI
• Ultra-2 SCSI-3 LVDS transfer rates supported
• Fast Ultra and Ultra-2 SCSI transfer rates supported (SCSI-3 compliant)
• S.M.A.R.T. 2 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
• SCSI bus active negation drivers
• Burst data transfer rate of up to 6.0 MB/s asynchronous, 40 MB/s Ultra
SCSI, 80 MB/s Ultra2 SCSI, 160 MB/s Ultra160 SCSI, and 320 MB/s
Ultra320 SCSI.
• SCSI bus fairness
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• MaXAdaptTM
~ Adaptive Active Filter (AAF)
~ Rotational Vibration Compensation (RVC)
~ Adaptive Bias Estimation (ABE)
~ Virtual Cache Line (VCL)
• Ultra 320 Performance Enhancements
~ Double Transition (DT) Data Transfer
~ Free Running Clock (FRC)
~Skew Compensation
~ Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
~ Domain Validation
~ Information Unit (IU) Transfers
~ Transmitter Pre-Compensation with Cutback
~ Quick Arbitration and Selection (QAS)
~ Asynchronous Information Protection (AIP)
~ SCSI Bus Fairness
~ Flow Control
Reliability
• Automatic retry on read errors
• 360-bit, interleaved Reed-Solomon Error Correcting Code (ECC), with
cross checking correction up to three separate bursts of 32 bits each
totalling up to 96 bits in length
• Self-diagnostic firmware
• Transparent media defect mapping
• High performance, in-line defective sector skipping
• Reassignment of defective sectors discovered in the field, without
reformatting
• Thermal Sensing monitors the drive temperature to ensure on-going drive
reliability
• Shock Protection System III (SPS III) protects the drive against specific
types of handling events that could cause damage to the drive.
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Versatility
• Downloadable firmware
• Plug-and-Play SCSI
• SCSI-2, Ultra160 SCSI, and Ultra320 SCSI compatibility
2.3REGULATORY COMPLIANCE STANDARDS
Maxtor Corporation’s disk drive products meet all domestic and international product
safety regulatory compliance requirements. Maxtor’s disk drive products conform to
the following specifically marked Product Safety Standards:
• Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standard 1950 3rd Edition. This
certificate is category UL recogniz e d perta i ning t o all 3.5 inch series drives.
• Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Standard C.22.2 No. 950. This
certificate is category c-UL recognized pertaining to all 3.5 inch series
drives.
• TUV Rheinland Standard EN60950. This certificate is a category
certification pertaining to all 3.5 inch series drives.
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Product EMI/EMC Qualifications:
Maxtor Corporation’s disk drive products meet all domestic and international electromagnetic emissions and immunity requirements. Maxtor’s disk drive products
conform to the following EMI/EMC Standards
• CE Mark (Europe) is a Self Declaration as per Directive 89/336,
EN55022: 1998 (Emissions) and EN55024: 1998 (Immunity).
• C-Tick Mark (Australia/New Zealand) is a Self Declaration as per
AS/NZS3548: 1998.
• BSMI Mark (Taiwan) is a Self Declaration as per CNS 13438:1998.
• MIC Mark (Korea) is a Certificate of registration for SCSI disk drives.
• Maxtor’s disk drives are designed as a separate subassembly that conforms to
the FCC Rules for Radiated and Conducted emissions, Part 15 Subpart J;
Class B when installed in a given computer system.
• Maxtor drives conform to Canadian EMC Standard ICES-003.
2.4HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
The Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drive is compatible with host computers and
controllers that provide a 68-pin Wide, or 80-pin SCA-2 interface. A 50-pin to 68pin adapter is required to use the 68-pin Wide drive in a 50-pin cabling configuration.
Termination is required on the Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drives as they do not
support on-board SCSI termination.
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Chapter 3
INSTALLATION
This chapter explains how to unpack, configure, mount, and connect the
Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drive prior to operation. It also explains how to start
up and operate the drive.
For your safety, follow all safety procedures described here and in other sections of
the manual.
• Remove power from the computer system (or expansion unit) before
installing or removing the drive to prevent the possibility of electrical
shock or damage to the drive. Unplug the unit containing the drive to
provide an added measure of safety.
• Read, understand, and observe all label warnings.
3.1.2Handling
Damage to the drive can occur as the result of careless handling, vibration, shock,
or electrostatic discharge (ESD). Always handle the drive with care to avoid damage
to the precision internal components.
Follow these guidelines to avoid damage to the drive:
• Always observe prescribed ESD precautions.
• Keep the drive in its anti-static bag until ready to install.
• Always use a properly fitted wrist strap or other suitable ESD protection
when handling the drive.
• Hold drive only by its sides. Do not touch any components on the
PCBA.
CAUTION: A 1/4-inch drop onto a hard surface can damage the drive.
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• Always handle the drive carefully and gently. A drop of 1/4 inch onto a
bench or desktop can damage a drive.
• Do not bump, jar, or drop the drive. Use care when transporting the
drive.
• Always gently place the drive flat, PCB side down, on an appropriate
ESD-protected work surface to avoid the drive being accidentally
knocked over.
• Do not pack other materials with the drive in its shielded bag.
• Place the drive in the anti-static bag before placing in shipping container.
• Do not stack objects on the drive.
• Never force the drive or the mounting brackets into the drive bay.
• Do not expose the drive to moisture.
• Do not damage any seals on the drive; doing so may void the warranty.
3.1.3Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection
Various electrical components within the disk drive are sensitive to static electricity
and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). Even a static buildup or discharge that is too
slight to feel can be sufficient to destroy or degrade a component's operation.
To minimize the possibility of ESD-related damage to the drive, we strongly
recommend using both, a properly installed workstation anti-static mat and a
properly installed ESD wrist strap. When correctly installed, these devices reduce
the buildup of static electricity which might harm the drive.
• Observe the following precautions to avoid ESD-related problems:
• Use a properly installed anti-static pad on your work surface.
• Always use a properly fitted and grounded wrist strap or other suitable
ESD protection when handling the drive and observe proper ESD
grounding techniques.
• Hold the drive only by its sides. Do not touch any components on the
PCBA.
• Leave the drive in its anti-static bag until you are ready to install it in the
system.
• Place the drive on a properly grounded anti-static work surface pad
when it is out of its protective anti-static bag.
• Do not use the bag as a substitute for the work surface anti-static pad.
The outside of the bag may not have the same anti-static properties as
the inside. It could actually increase the possibility of ESD problems.
• Do not use any test equipment to check components on the electronics
module. There are no user-serviceable components on the drive.
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3.2SPACE REQUIREMENTS
The Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drive is shipped without a faceplate and comes
in the following SCSI interface configurations:
• 68-pin Wide SCSI
• 80-pin SCA-2 SCSI
Figure 3-1 Shows The Mechanical Dimensions of the drives.
Figure 3-1 Dimensions for the Maxtor Atlas 10K V Hard Disk Drives
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3.2.1Shock Feet
Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drives are outfitted with plastic shock feet on the
bottom edge of the base casting, near the corners, beneath the side mounting holes
(translucent), and near the corners of the top cover next to the screws (black). The
shock feet give an additional level of isolation to prevent the head and disk damage
that occasionally occurs during unpacking, staging, and installation. The shock feet
attenuate the short-pulse shocks that occur when placing the drive on a hard surface.
If the drive is tested on a hard surface, it should be supported such that the shock
feet are not in contact with a hard surface (the drive should be supported in the
middle, between the shock feet).
Note:To provide optimal protection the shock feet are designed to ex-
ceed the form factor when uncompressed.
3.3UNPACKING INSTRUCTIONS
CAUTION: The maximum limits for physical shock can be exceeded if
the drive is not handled properly. Special care should be
taken not to bump or drop the drive.
1. Open the shipping container and remove the packing assembly that contains
the drive.
2. Remove the drive from the packing assembly.
CAUTION: During shipment and handling, the antistatic electrostatic dis-
charge (ESD) bag prevents electronic component damage due
to electrostatic discharge. To avoid accidental damage to the
drive, do not use a sharp instrument to open the ESD bag.
Save the packing materials for possible future use.
3. When you are ready to install the drive, remove it from the ESD bag.
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Figure 3-2 shows the packing assembly for a single Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk
drive. Shipping containers for 25-pack are available for multiple drive shipments.
Figure 3-2 Drive Packing Assembly
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3.4HARDWARE OPTIONS
3.4.1Configuration Jumpers and Connections
This section includes setup and configuration information for Maxtor Atlas 10K V
drives. These disk drives include
• The 16-bit multimode Ultra320 SCSI, wide version with 68-pin SCSI
connector,
• The 16-bit multimode Ultra320 SCSI, version with SCA-2 80-pin
connector.
Specific individual settings for each drive type are described in Sections 3.5.1
through 3.5.4.
CAUTION: Before you begin, review the Safety, ESD, and Handling precau-
tions described at the beginning of this manual to avoid personal injury or damage to equipment.
3.4.2Jumper Options on the 68-Pin Wide PCB
This section describes how to configure the jumpers on Maxtor Atlas 10K V disks
with 68-pin SCSI interface connectors. The following features are jumperselectable:
• SCSI ID (0), (1), (2), (3) – SCSI Bus Device Identification
•Delay Spin
• Single-Ended, Disable LVD
• Busy Out (Remote LED)
• Write Protect
•Stagger Spin
Note: The disk drive does not support on-board SCSI termina-
tion.
Note: The configuration of a Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk
drive depends on the host system in which it is to be installed. Figure 3-3 shows the printed circuit board (PCB)
assemblies for 68-pin SCSI configurations, indicating the
jumpers that control some of these options.
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