Seagate Medalist ST3636A Manuals

Manuals and User Guides for Seagate Medalist ST3636A. We have 4 Seagate Medalist ST3636A manuals available for free PDF download: Product Manual, Quick Installation Manual, User Manual

Seagate Medalist ST3636A Product Manual (92 pages)

Medalist Family

Brand: Seagate | Category: Storage | Size: 0.38 MB

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Table of Contents
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1 Overview of the Drive

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- What Is the Drive
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- Features of the Drive
  13
- What the Drive Is Composed of
  14
  - Mechanical Design Features
    14
    
    Drive Assembly Housing
    14
    
    Head Positioning Mechanism
    14
    
    Read/Write Heads and Disks
    15
    
    Data and Power Connections
    16
  - Electrical Design Features
    16
    
    Pre-Amplifier
    16
    
    Circuit Board
    16
  - Firmware
    16
2 Specifications

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- Specifications in this Chapter
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  - Drive Capacity
    18
  - Physical Configuration
    18
  - Performance Characteristics
    19
  - Read/Write Characteristics
    20
  - Reliability
    20
  - Power Requirements
    21
  - Environmental Tolerances
    21
  - Product Test Standards
    22
  - Physical Characteristics
    23
3 How the Drive Operates

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- Functions of the Drive
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- Drive Operational Modes
  25
- Error Correction
  25
- Universal Translate Mode
  26
- Master/Slave Configuration
  26
  - Cable Select
    27
  - Forced M/S Operation
    27
4 Installing the Drive

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- Take These Precautions
  29
5 Host Interface

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- About the Host Interface
  35
- Signal Conventions
  35
- Signal Levels
  35
- Signal Descriptions
  36
- ATA/CAM Master/Slave Reset Timing
  38
- Host PI0 16-Bit Timing Values
  40
- Host Demand Mode DMA 16-Bit Interface Timing Values
  41
6 Register Addresses and Functions

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- Host Address Decoding
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- Addressing the Data
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  - Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) Mode
    45
  - Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Mode
    45
- Descriptions of the Registers
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  - Data Register
    46
  - Error Register
    47
  - Features Register (Formerly Write Precomp Register)
    48
  - Sector Count
    48
  - Sector Number
    48
  - Cylinder Low
    49
  - Cylinder High
    49
  - Device/Head Register
    50
  - Status Register
    51
  - Alternate Status Register
    52
  - Device Control Register
    53
  - Drive Address Register
    54
  - Command Register
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7 Command Set

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- Command Register
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  - Seagate Specific
    58
    
    Get Drive Feature Word (00)
    59
  - Execute Drive Diagnostic
    60
  - Format Track
    60
  - Identify Device
    61
  - Initialize Device Parameters
    65
  - Power Commands
    66
  - Read DMA
    67
  - Read Multiple
    68
  - Read Sector(S)
    69
  - Read Sector Buffer
    70
  - Read Verify Sectors
    70
  - Recalibrate
    71
  - Seek
    71
  - Set Features (Set Look Ahead Read)
    72
  - Set Multiple Mode
    73
  - S.M.a.r.t
    74
    
    Device Attributes Data Structure
    77
    
    Device Attribute Thresholds Data Structure
    80
    
    Error Reporting
    82
  - Write DMA
    83
    
    Write Caching
    83
  - Write Multiple
    84
    
    Write Caching
    84
  - Write Sector(S)
    86
    
    Write Caching
    87
  - Write Sector Buffer
    87
8 Error Reporting

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- Error and Status Detection
  89
- Error and Status Messages
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Glossary

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Seagate Medalist ST3636A User Manual (2 pages)

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Seagate Medalist ST3636A Quick Installation Manual (2 pages)

ATA/IDE Hard Drives

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Seagate Medalist ST3636A Quick Installation Manual (2 pages)

ATA/IDE Hard Drives

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Seagate Medalist ST3636A Product Manual (92 pages)

Table of Contents

1 Overview of the Drive

2 Specifications

3 How the Drive Operates

4 Installing the Drive

5 Host Interface

6 Register Addresses and Functions

7 Command Set

8 Error Reporting

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