Hard Drive: SEAGATE: ST34250A MEDALI.4250 4265MB 3.5"/SL ATA2 FAST
S T 3 4 2 5 0 A M E D A L I . 4 2 5 0 SEAGATE
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Form 3.5"/SLIMLINE Cylinders | 8264| 516| 1024
Capacity form/unform 4265/ MB Heads 10| 16| | 16
Seek time / track 10.5/ 2.0 ms Sector/track | 63| 63| 63
Controller IDE / ATA2 FAST/ENHA Precompensation
Cache/Buffer 128 KB SEACACHE Landing Zone
Data transfer rate 5.500 MB/S int Bytes/Sector 512
16.600 MB/S ext PIO4
Recording method ZBR PRML89 operating | non-operating
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Supply voltage 5/12 V Temperature *C |
Power: sleep W Humidity % |
standby W Altitude km |
idle W Shock g 5 | 75
seek W Rotation RPM 5376
read/write W Acoustic dBA
spin-up W ECC Bit
MTBF h 500000
Warranty Month
Lift/Lock/Park YES Certificates
Jumpers
SEAGATE ST33440A/34250A MEDALIST 3440/4250AT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
Jumper Setting
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Front View
Slave drive ON (OFF for Master) ------+
Slave Present (used on Master) ----+ |
Master/Slave timing protocol causes Master --+-+ |
drive to wait up to 31 seconds for slave | | |
(TOP) to respond. Must be used with pins 3-4 | | |
+--+-+-++
|o o o o1
Option Block -----PWA------------------------------------+o o o o2--
++----+-+
(BOTTOM) Cable Select -----+ |
Spare jumper stored on pins 2-4 ----------+
General
SEAGATE ATA-INTERFACE
ATA Interface Reference Manual 36111-001, Rev. C 21 May 1993
1993 Seagate Technology, Inc. All rights reserved
Publication Number: 36111-001, Rev. C
Introduction
------------
This manual describes Seagate Technology s implementation of the AT
Attachment (ATA) interface, an intelligent hard disc drive interface
for use in personal computer systems. This manual includes supported
ATA interface commands, command execution, translation methodology,
caching, power management, signal conventions, line specifications,
and interpretations of error conditions. These interface descriptions
are based on the draft proposed American National Standard (dpANS)
ATA Interface Revision 4.0. For information on a particular Seagate
ATA interface drive (including any drive-unique features not listed
in this document), refer to the product manual for the specific
drive.
Advantages of the ATA interface
-------------------------------
The ATA interface is a natural extension of the ISA system bus. Most
of the signals and circuitry necessary for the interface are already
present in the host system. The interface is easily implemented into
the design of an ISA or EISA system with little or no extension
required in the system software. It is for this reason that the ATA
interface standard has gained such wide acceptance in the personal
computer industry. The ATA interface is designated as a logic-level
interface, and responds to high-level commands from the host. The
drive itself is an intelligent device with an embedded controller
that interprets and executes the commands sent from the host. After
command execution, the drive reports information on successful
command completion, any error conditions and all parameters
appropriate to drive status queries.
Origins and implementation history
----------------------------------
The ATA interface has evolved rapidly since its initial design by
Compaq Corporation. After refining the basic ATA interface concepts
and circuitry, Compaq Corporation worked with Imprimis (now a part of
Seagate) to build the first ATA interface drive. At this stage, the
interface was far from being an accepted standard. However, it was a
natural extension of the ATA I/O bus, and gained industry-wide
acceptance because most of the necessary framework needed for the
implementation was already present in the host machine.
Initially, there were no industry-wide standards for implementing the
ATA interface, leaving manufacturers free to extend and improve upon
it. In the latter part of 1988, a Common Access Method (CAM)
committee was established to develop such standards. Their results
were adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) with
the intent of creating a common ATA command specification.
The ANSI standard for the ATA interface now provides specifications
for mandatory commands, signal conventions, register descriptions and
other information necessary for basic compatibility across
manufacturers and platforms. The current ANSI specification includes
provisions for extended features such as caching and power
management, while also providing options for vendor-specific
enhancements.
Nomenclature and conventions
----------------------------
Throughout this manual, the term master refers to Drive 0 in a
two-drive system; the term slave refers to Drive 1, if present.
Signals may be asserted or negated. A signal that is asserted as a
higher positive voltage is referred to as active high. A signal that
is asserted as a lower (positive) voltage is referred to as active
low, and is indicated by a minus sign (-) following the signal name.
ATA cables and connectors
-------------------------
The standard ATA interface cable is a 40-conductor nonshielded cable.
The cable should be no more than 18 inches (457 mm) long, with
connectors that provide strain relief and are keyed at pin 20. Two
types of connectors are used on Seagate s ATA-capable drives: a
40-pin connector for 5.25-and 3.5-inch drives, and a 50-pin connector
for 2.5- and 1.8-inch drives.
Connector used on 5.25- and 3.5-inch drives
-------------------------------------------
The standard connector used on 5.25- and 3.5-inch drives has 40 pin
positions in 2 rows of 20 pins each, on 100 mil (0.1 inch) centers.
Pin 20 is removed for keying. The mating cable connector is a keyed,
40-pin-position nonshielded female connector with 2 rows of 20
contacts on 100 mil centers. For 5.25- and 3.5-inch drives,
power is supplied to the drive through a separate 4-conductor cable.
Seagate recommends using 40-pin connectors such as AMP part number
1-499496-0, Du Pont part number 66900-040, or equivalent.
Connector used on 2.5-inch drives
---------------------------------
The ATA connector on 2.5-inch drives has 50 pin positions. In
addition to the key pin, one pair of pins is removed, and the four
end pins are used as jumpers for master/slave configurations.
This leaves 44 pins to supply power and conduct signals to and from
the drive.
The signal pins (1 through 40) are assigned the same signals as in
the 40-pin connector used for 5.25- and 3.5-inch drives. Power is
supplied through pins 41, 42 and 43. The mating cable connector is a
44-conductor nonshielded connector with 2 rows of 22 female contacts
on 0.079-inch (2 mm) centers.
We recommend using a connector such as Molex part number 87259-
4413 or equivalent for 2.5-inch drives attached to flexible cables or
printed circuit cables. Some Seagate 2.5-inch drives are designed to
support the industry-standard MCC direct-mounting specifications (see
drive product manual for details). MCC-compatible connectors (such as
Molex part number 87368-442 x or equivalent) and mounting hardware
must be used with these drives in fixed-mounting applications.
System configurations
---------------------
Seagate recommends using the ATA interface in one of the following
configurations:
- If the system motherboard has its own ATA connector, then you can connect the drive interface cable directly to the system motherboard.
- If the system does not have a built-in ATA connector, then attach the interface cable to a Seagate ST07A or ST08A host adapter installed in a system expansion slot.
Signal / Pin descriptions
-------------------------
Note. Not all Seagate drives support the full complement of ATA
signals listed below. To determine the complete set of signals that
are supported by a particular Seagate drive, see the product manual
for that drive.
Data lines to and from host. These comprise the 16-bit tristate,
bidirectional data bus between host and drive. The lower 8-bits of
host data (0 7) are used for register and ECC access. All 16 bits are
used for data transfers.
19 Ground Grounding pin
20 Key An unused pin, which is clipped off at the drive to allow
keyed cable attachment.
21 DMARQ DMA Request (optional)
22 Ground Grounding pin
23 DIOW Drive I/O write strobe. Rising edge clocks data from the host
data bus to a drive register or data port.
24 Ground Grounding pin
25 DIOR Drive I/O read strobe. Falling edge enables data from a drive
register or data port to host data bus.
26 Ground Grounding pin
27 IORDY I/O Channel Ready (optional) - a tristate signal.
28 SPSYNC or CSEL (optional) SPSYNC is an interdrive clock
signal sent from the master drive to the slave drive to allow the
slave to synchronize its spindle motor to the master drive's
spindle motor. CSEL is used to differentiate master from slave in
a two-drive system.
29 DMACK DMA Acknowledge (optional)
30 Ground Grounding pin
31 INTRQ A tristate signal used to interrupt the host system.
Asserted only when the drive has a pending interrupt, the drive is
selected, and the host has cleared nIEN in the Device Control
register.
32 IOCS16 A tristate signal that, when active, indicates to the host
system that the 16-bit data port has been addressed and that the
drive is prepared to send or receive a 16-bit data word.
33 DA1 Drive I/O address line 1: a 3-bit binary coded address
asserted by the host to access a register or data port in the
drive.
34 PDIAG Passed diagnostics. Used by slave to signal to master drive
that slave has passed its internal diagnostics.
35 DA0 Drive I/O address line 0 (see DA1 above).
36 DA2 Drive I/O address line 2 (see DA1 above).
37 CS1FX Drive I/O chip select decoded from host address lines. When
active, one of the registers in the Command Block is selected.
38 CS3FX Drive I/O chip select decoded from host address lines. When
active, one of the registers in the Control Block is selected.
39 DASP Dual purpose pin:
1) When drive is slave (SLV), this pin is used during power up to
signal to the master that a slave is present.
2) At all other times, the signal is active when the drive is
executing a command, and can be used by the host I/O adapter to
send an activity signal to an LED.
40 Ground Grounding pin
Interface handshaking
---------------------
The main handshaking signals between the drive and the host are the
busy bit (BSY) and the data request bit (DRQ) (in the status
register) and the interrupt (INTRQ) signal. They can be set in one of
the following ways:
- Any reset will cause BSY to be set.
- Writing a command to the command register will also set BSY.
The BSY bit is used to indicate that the controller is busy and
should not be accessed.
The DRQ bit is used to control the data transfer to and from the
controller.
The host can read/write the data register only when the DRQ bit is
set to 1. The INTRQ signal is generated by the drive to interrupt the
host. For example, during a Read Sector command, the drive generates
an INTRQ to the host whenever a sector is ready for the host to read.
No INTRQ is generated immediately after completion of a Read command.
The number of interrupts equals the number of sectors read.
During a Write Sector command, the drive generates an INTRQ whenever
the drive requests data from the host (except for the first sector).
The drive also generates an interrupt immediately after completion of
a Write command. The number of interrupts equals the number of
sectors written.
ATA interface I/O registers
---------------------------
The drive communicates with the host system through an I/O register
that routes the input and output data between registers. These
registers are selected by codes on the CS1FX, CS3FX, DA2, DA1, DA0,
DIOR (read) and DIOW (write) lines from the host.
The I/O register routes data between 14 registers. Ten registers are
used for commands to the drive or status reports from the drive, one
register is used for data, and three registers are used for control
and alternate status.
These registers can be divided into two groups: Command Block
registers and Control Block registers.
PC-AT I/O port address: 3F6H
This register contains the same information as the Status register in
the command block. The only difference is that reading this register
does not imply interrupt acknowledge or reset a pending interrupt.
This register can be read at any time.
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F7H
This eight-bit register contains the host command. When this register
is written, the drive immediately begins executing the command. The
host must ensure that the BSY bit in the Status register is set to 0.
All other setup registers must be written to (with appropriate
values) before the command register can be written.
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F5H
This register contains the most significant bits of the starting
cylinder address for any disc access. At the completion of a command,
this register is updated to reflect the current cylinder address.
With logical block addressing, this register contains bits 23 through
16 of the LBA.
Cylinder Low register
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F4H
This register contains the eight least significant bits of the
starting cylinder address for any disc access. At the completion of a
command, this register is updated to reflect the current cylinder
address.
With logical block addressing, this register contains bits 15 through
8 of the LBA.
Data register
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F0H
This is the register through which:
- All data is passed during Read and Write commands.
- The sector table is transferred during format commands.
The host can only access this register when the DRQ bit in the status
register is set to 1. All transfers use 16-bit words, except the ECC
bytes transferred during Read Long and Write Long commands, which use
8 bit bytes.
Drive/Head register
The host selects between the master and slave drives based on the DRV
bit in the drive/head register. When the DRV bit is not set, the
master drive is selected, and when the DRV bit is set to 1, the slave
drive is selected. Seagate drives are designated as master and slave
by setting the appropriate jumpers.
Error register
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F1H
This register contains the status from the last command executed by
the drive, or it may contain a diagnostic code. At the completion of
any command except Execute Drive Diagnostic, the contents of this
register are valid when ERR=1 in the Status register. Following a
power on, reset, or completion of an Execute Drive Diagnostic
command, this register contains a diagnostic code.
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F2H
This register specifies the number of sectors of data to be
transferred during read/write sector commands. The value contained in
the register is decremented every time a sector is transferred. A
value of zero specifies 256 sectors. When executing the Initialize
Drive Parameters or Format commands, this register defines the number
of sectors per track.
This register is used by the power mode commands to set timers.
Sector Number register
PC-AT I/O port address: 1F3H
This register contains the starting sector number for any disc
access. At the completion of a command, this register is updated to
reflect the last sector transferred correctly, or the sector on which
an error occurred. The sectors are numbered sequentially, starting
with 1. With logical block addressing, this register contains bits 7
through 0 of the logical block address (LBA).
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