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Product Manual - Page 9
... drive. Note. The drives support LBA addressing and are low-level formatted at the factory. (You can use an ATA interface.
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1.0 Specification summary
The Medalist 275xe and 545xe drives use other values to as the ST3295A.
Cylinders Heads Sectors per track) × (logical cylinders). Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. The interface conforms to by their model...
Product Manual - Page 10
Some DOS and BIOS pairings can limit the accessible hard disc capacity to determine the drive capacity. If more than 528 Mbytes.
• Use installation software or a software device driver that supports more than 1,024 cylinders in the System Setup, the system may ignore the additional cylinders or overwrap the initial 1,024 with the additional cylinders.
There...
Product Manual - Page 12
... stop time
Within 10 seconds, the drive is determined by measuring 100 full-stroke seeks in both directions.
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Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev.
See Figure 1 on page 7 for the typical startup current profile. Start time Stop time
Typical 7 sec 6 sec
Maximum 10 sec 9 sec
1.7 Power specifications
Except during spinup The full-stroke...
Product Manual - Page 14
... Seagate ATA Interface Reference Manual, publication number 36111-xxx for details.
These power dissipation values apply only when power management is averaged over 3 seconds. To enable power management, use the computer setup utility.
2. When the Idle timer is enabled, it is enabled, is randomly seeking with two spindle rotations between the time the drive...
Product Manual - Page 17
Seagate Technology, Inc. Nonrecoverable errors MTBF Contact start -stop (CSS) MTTR Service life
1 per 1013 bits read 300,000 power-on hours 40,000 cycles 30 minutes 5 years
1.11 Auto-park
Upon power-down, the read/write heads automatically move to ensure that the total assembly (enclosure, disc drive, motherboard, power supply, etc.) does comply...
Product Manual - Page 19
... the entire installation procedure.
• Handle the drive by touching the metal chassis of a power supply that can damage sensitive components when discharged through mishandling. Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. Observe the following features:
• The ATA interface connector • The power connector • The master/slave jumper block • The optional drive activity...
Product Manual - Page 21
The drive is installed as the single drive in the computer.
2.4.2 Two-drive configuration
When two drives are installed in the computer, you must configure one drive as the master and the other as the slave.
Cable select
Figure 3. Connectors and jumpers
2.4.1 Single-drive configuration
Use the factory-default jumper setting when the Medalist drive is a master;
The drive is not ATA-...
Product Manual - Page 22
To configure your drives support cable select (CSEL), you need to install jumpers and to determine the master and slave. To make a drive the slave, attach it to the connector that has pin 28 unconnected (CSEL is not carried to pin 28 of that cable connector.) Note that you configure your Medalist drive as the master when...
Product Manual - Page 27
Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. For a complete description of the Seagate ATA interface, refer to the computer through the 40-pin interface connector shown in upper case.
• Signal names followed by a minus sign (-) indicate that the drive receives must have the following input characteristics measured at the drive connector. This text uses the...
Product Manual - Page 29
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3.3 Supported ATA commands
The table on page 22 lists all ATA interface commands the drives use .
In the drive/head register, both the drive and head parameters are discussed in the text. y This register contains a valid parameter for the drives or that the ST3295A and ST3660A drives use , refer to the Seagate ATA Interface Reference Manual, part number 36111...
Product Manual - Page 31
... bits or words must be set to zero.
Some DOS and BIOS combinations do not support more than 10 Mbits/sec Bit 6: 1 = fixed drive Bit 4: 1 = head switch time > 15 µsec Bit 3: 1 = not MFM encoded Bit 1: 1 = hard-sectored disc
045AH
Number of fixed cylinders (default logical emulation)
ST3295A: 2F9H ST3660A: 421H
ATA reserved
0000H
Number...
Product Manual - Page 32
...multiple
Double word I/O (not supported)
DMA data transfer and IORDY (supported)
ATA reserved
PIO data ...Drive-dependent string Drive-dependent string: ST3xxxA 0010H
0000H 0B00H 0000H 0200H 0200H 0003H
See Section 1. See Section 1.
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Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. See Section 1. Drive model number (40 ASCII characters, padded to end of ECC bytes available (R/W Long)
Firmware...
Product Manual - Page 33
... reserved 128-159 Seagate reserved 160-255 ATA reserved
0000H xxxxH 0000H
2. emulation mode)
59 60-61
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Current multiple sector setting 01xxH
LBA total sectors
3,295 532,700D 3,660 1,065,046D
Single-word DMA active; Cycle times less than 363 nsec require IORDY. Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. modes supported
0000H
63...
Product Manual - Page 34
... does not change the feature selections (this can be canceled by the ST3295A and ST3660A drives.
Write the Feature value to the command register. Note.
Use current settings as default (until hard reset or power off). 26
Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. At power-on defaults (factory default). Disable ECC. Disable write cache. To...
Product Manual - Page 39
Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. B
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3.6 Supported BIOS
The drive uses 16 bytes of ECC. Earlier BIOS revisions than 16 bytes, some drive diagnostics may not fully support the ATA interface as implemented on the ST3295A and ST3660A drives. If the computer BIOS expects less than those listed may return false failures (typically time-out errors). If so...
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