General Description - Seagate ST373405LW - Cheetah 73.4 GB Hard Drive Product Manual

Cheetah 73LP Product Manual, Rev. C
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General description

Cheetah 73LP drives combine giant magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, partial response/maximum likelihood
(PRML) read channel electronics, embedded servo technology, and a wide Ultra160 SCSI interface to provide
high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, net-
work servers, mainframes, and supercomputers.
The Ultra160 interface uses negotiated transfer rates. These transfer rates will occur only if your host adapter
supports these data transfer rates and is compatible with the required hardware requirements of the
cuit type. This drive also operates at SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 data transfer rates for backward compatibility with
non-Ultra/Ultra2/Ultra3 SCSI host adapters.
Table 1 lists the features that differentiate the Cheetah 73LP models.
Table 1: Drive model number vs. differentiating features
Model number
ST373405LW/LWV
ST373405LC/LCV
ST336605LC/LCV
[1] See Section 9.6 for details and definitions.
The drive records and recovers data on approximately 3.3-inch (84 mm) non-removable discs.
The drive supports the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) as described in the ANSI SCSI-2/SCSI-3
interface specifications to the extent described in this manual (volume 1), which defines the product perfor-
mance characteristics of the Cheetah 73LP family of drives, and the SCSI Interface Product Manual, part num-
ber 75789509, which describes the general interface characteristics of this and other families of Seagate SCSI
drives.
The drive's interface supports multiple initiators, disconnect/reconnect, self-configuring host software, and
automatic features that relieve the host from the necessity of knowing the physical characteristics of the targets
(logical block addressing is used).
The head and disc assembly (HDA) is sealed at the factory. Air circulates within the HDA through a non-
replaceable filter to maintain a contamination-free HDA environment.
Refer to Figure 2 for an exploded view of the drive. This exploded view is for information only—never disassem-
ble the HDA and do not attempt to service items in the sealed enclosure (heads, media, actuator, etc.) as this
requires special facilities. The drive contains no replaceable parts. Opening the HDA voids your warranty.
Cheetah 73LP drives use a dedicated landing zone at the innermost radius of the media to eliminate the possi-
bility of destroying or degrading data by landing in the data zone. The drive automatically goes to the landing
zone when power is removed.
An automatic shipping lock prevents potential damage to the heads and discs that results from movement dur-
ing shipping and handling. The shipping lock automatically disengages when power is applied to the drive and
the head load process begins.
Cheetah 73LP drives decode track 0 location data from the servo data embedded on each surface to eliminate
mechanical transducer adjustments and related reliability concerns.
A high-performance actuator assembly with a low-inertia, balanced, patented, straight-arm design provides
excellent performance with minimal power dissipation.
Number
of active
heads I/O circuit type [1]
8 Single-ended (SE) and low voltage
differential (LVD)
8 Single-ended (SE) and low voltage
differential (LVD)
4 Single-ended (SE) and low voltage
differential (LVD)
Number of I/O Number of I/O
connector pins data bus bits
68 16
80 16
80 16
5
I/O cir-