General Description - Seagate ST3300655LW Product Manual

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General description

Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI drives combine giant magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, partial response/maximum likeli-
hood (PRML) read channel electronics, embedded servo technology, and a wide Ultra320 SCSI interface to
provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering worksta-
tions, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers.
Ultra320 SCSI use 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 I/O circuit type. This
drive also operates at SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 data transfer rates for backward compatibility with non-Ultra/Ultra2/
Ultra160/Ultra320 SCSI host adapters.
Table 1 lists the features that differentiate the Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI models.
Table 1: Drive model number vs. differentiating features
Model number
ST3300655LW
ST3146855LW
ST373455LW
ST3300655LC
ST3146855LC
ST373455LC
[1] See Section 9.6 for details and definitions.
The drive records and recovers data on approximately 70 mm non-removable discs.
The drive supports the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) as described in the ANSI SCSI interface
specifications to the extent described in this manual (volume 1), which defines the product performance char-
acteristics of the Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI family of drives, the Parallel SCSI Interface Manual, part number
100293069, and the SCSI Commands Reference Manual, part number 100293068, which describe the gen-
eral 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 log-
ical block addressing.
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.
Never disassemble the HDA and do not attempt to service items in the sealed enclosure (heads, media, actu-
ator, etc.) as this requires special facilities. The drive contains no replaceable parts. Opening the HDA voids
your warranty.
Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. D
Number of
active heads I/O circuit type [1]
8 Single-ended (SE) and low voltage
4 differential (LVD)
2
8 Single-ended (SE) and low voltage
4 differential (LVD)
2
Number of I/O
connector pins
68
80
7