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Seagate BARRACUDA 4FC Installation Manual

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BARRACUDA 4FC
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  • Page 1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BARRACUDA 4FC • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise..........5 Technical support services ..........9 General description ............12 Installing the ST15150FC drive ........14 Kühlung des Systems............15 Troubleshooting...............24 ©1995 Seagate Technology, Inc. All rights reserved Publication Number: 83329070, Rev. A September 1995 ® Seagate , Seagate Technology®, and the Seagate logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology, Inc.

  • Page 3: Preface

    Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Preface This manual contains information for users of the Seagate ST15150FC (Fibre Channel interface) Barracuda disc drives. It provides technical support information, perfor- mance specifications, installation instructions, and a trou- bleshooting section. Additional information is available in the Barracuda 4FC Product Manual (part number 83329080).

  • Page 4: Important Safety Information And Precautions

    Ground yourself to the drive whenever the drive elec- tronics are or will be exposed. Connect yourself to ground with a wrist strap (Seagate part number 12263496). Connection may be made to any grounded metal assembly. As a general rule, remem-...
  • Page 5 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A and followed to minimize or eliminate the risk of personal injury. The warnings point out conditions or practices that may endanger you or others. The cautions point out con- ditions or practices that may damage the unit, possibly making it unsafe for use.
  • Page 6 As a component, the drive is designed to be installed and operated in accordance with UL1950, IEC950, CSA C22.2 950-M89, and VDE0805 and EN60950. Seagate takes all reasonable steps to ensure that its products are certifiable to currently accepted standards. Typical applications of these disc drives include customer packaging and subsystem design.

  • Page 7: Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise

    This unit is a component part and as such is not meant to comply with FCC or similar national requirements as a stand-alone unit. Engineering radiated emissions test results are available through the Seagate Safety Depart- ment to assist the subsystem designer. Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise Vorsicht.
  • Page 8 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A weise machen auf Situationen oder Praktiken aufmerk- sam, die die Einheit beschädigen können, so daß deren Gebrauch mit Risiko behaftet ist. Die Warn- und Vorsichtshinweise sind nicht allumfassend! Es ist uns einfach nicht möglich, alle Wartungsmethoden oder die eventuellen Risiken jeder Methode zu kennen, zu beurteilen und Sie entsprechend zu beraten.
  • Page 9 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A • Wenn das Laufwerk in einem Einbaugestell oder Gehäuse montiert ist, sorgen Sie dafür, daß die Tem- peratur im Inneren des Gestells oder Gehäuses die für das Laufwerk vorgegebenen Grenzwerte nicht übersteigt. Wenn Einheiten vertikal übereinander...
  • Page 10 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Als Teilkomponente ist dieses Laufwerk für die Installation und den Betrieb in Übereinstimmung mit UL 1950, IEC950, EN60950, CSA C22.2 950 und VDE0805 vorgesehen. Seagate ist ständig bemüht, die Zulassungsfähigkeit von Seagate-Produkten im Rahmen der gegenwärtig gel- tenden Standards zu gewährleisten.

  • Page 11: Technical Support Services

    SeaFAX™, SeaFONE™, SeaTDD™, or SeaBOARD™ services. These are toll calls if you dial from outside of the number’s local dialing area. Seagate also has a forum on Com- puServe. SeaFAX USA (408) 438-2620; England 44-62-847-7080 Use a touch-tone telephone to access Seagate’s auto- mated FAX system and select technical support informa- tion by return FAX.
  • Page 12 Technical support specialists are available from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday. Recorded tech- nical information on selected Seagate products is pro- vided while you are on hold. Recordings are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Page 13 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A SeaBOARD Location Modem number USA, Mexico, Latin America....(408) 438-8771 England ..........44-62-847-8011 Germany..........49-89-140-9331 Singapore ..........65-292-6973 Australia ..........61-2-756-2359 Canada..........(416) 856-5581 France ..........33-1-40-67-1034 Korea............82-2-556-7294...

  • Page 14: General Description

    The disc drive must receive ade- quate cooling (refer to “Providing adequate cooling”) and it must be sufficiently grounded and shielded from emis- sions. The Barracuda 4FC Product Manual (part number 83329080) contains guidelines for a properly designed enclosure.
  • Page 15 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Characteristics ST15150FC Interface Fibre Channel Capacity Unformatted 5,062 Mbytes Formatted 4,294 Mbytes Recording Cylinders (user) 3,711 Read/write data heads Servo heads Avg bytes/track 64,160 Seek time Average read 8.0 msec Average write 9.0 msec...

  • Page 16: Installing The St15150Fc Drive

    Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Installing the ST15150FC drive To install a ST15150FC drive, simply plug the drive directly into your system’s Fibre Channel backpanel 40- pin single connector attachment (FC-SCA). There are no jumpers or terminators on the drive, and power is supplied through the connector.

  • Page 17: Kühlung Des Systems

    Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A This minimizes the distance traveled by air that is heated by the drive and by other nearby heat sources. Figure 2 shows one design approach with one or more fans used to generate air flow. The air-flow pattern can be created by the fans either pushing or drawing air.
  • Page 18 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Abbildung 2 zeigt zwei Konstruktionsmöglichkeiten, bei denen ein oder mehrere Lüfter den Luftstrom erzeugen. Der Luftstromverlauf wird durch die Lüfter gesteuert, die entweder Luft einblasen oder abziehen. Generell kann der Luftstrom entweder von vorne nach hinten oder von hinten nach vorne verlaufen.
  • Page 19 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A the drive and there are four mounting holes in the bottom of the drive. See Figure 3. The maximum length that the screws should extend into the chassis mounting holes is 0.15 inch (3.81 mm), mea- sured from the outer surface of the chassis.
  • Page 20 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Notes: Mounting holes two on each side, 6-32 UNC. Max screw length into side of drive is .809 ref 0.15 in. (3.81 mm). Motherboard ref Mounting holes four on bottom, .136 6-32 UNC. Max screw length into bottom of drive is 0.15 in.
  • Page 21 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Inserting the drive Most systems provide a way to insert the drive using a carrier or tray which allows the drive to be hot-plugged into the system’s Fibre Channel 40-pin single connector attachment (FC-SCA). Refer to your system documenta- tion about the method they provide and follow their instructions.
  • Page 22 Seagate provides an ASPI utility that you can use in a PC compatible system to enable the write cache. It is available on Seagate’s Com- puServe forum and on the Seagate BBS (refer to “Techni- cal support services” on page 9).
  • Page 23 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Connecting remote LEDs You can connect remote LEDs using J20 (see Figure 4). Connect the anode (usually the longer LED connector) to the +5V pin, and the cathode to the appropriate LED out- put pin. For example, if you want to attach an LED which lights up when the drive is active (reading or writing), con- nect the LED’s anode connector to J20 pin 6 and the cath-...
  • Page 24 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Table 1: FC-SCA pin descriptions Pin/contact Signal name Signal type –EN bypass port A TTL output 12 Volts 12 Volts 12 Volts Reserved NC Reserved NC Active LED out Open collector out Spindle sync...
  • Page 25 Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Pin/contact Signal name Signal type Ground +CH2_in Diff. PECL input pair –CH2_in Ground +CH1_out Diff. PECL output pair –CH1_out Ground +CH2_out Diff. PECL output pair –CH2_out Ground SEL_2 TTL input SEL_1 TTL input SEL_0...

  • Page 26: Troubleshooting

    Barracuda 4FC Installation Guide, Rev. A Troubleshooting Before calling Seagate Technical Support, please read the possibilities discussed below. The suggestions presented here will resolve the majority of installation problems. General installation troubleshooting • Check system compatibility. This is a Fibre Channel (FC) device.
  • Page 28 Seagate Technology, Inc. 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 83329070, Rev. A, Printed in USA...

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