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Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 2
...release.
Rev. B
11/20/2009 Updated drive specifications on Tables 1-3; added "Warranty" specific section. Made minor text edits throughout.
Rev. C
01/08/2010 Corrected publication part number.
Rev. D
09/10/2010 Added 3000GB (3TB) model and corresponding specifications throughout.
Copyright © 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo...
Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 9
... legacy software support. Serial ATA was designed to allow you to install a Serial ATA host adapter and Serial ATA disk drive in your current system and expect all of your existing applications to work as normal.
The Serial ATA interface connects each disk drive in a point-to-point configuration with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like...
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...Seagate uses this threshold curve (originated in ISO 3897) to discern tone audibility and to compensate for the inaudible components of sound prior to computation of tone ratios according to Annex D of the ECMA-74 standards.
2.9 Electromagnetic immunity
When properly installed in a representative host system, the drive operates without errors...
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.... Operation with noncertified assemblies is likely to result in interference to radio and television reception.
Radio and television interference. This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, may cause interference to radio and television reception.
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... Corrosive environment
Seagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 years exposure to light industrial environments containing sulfurous gases, chlorine and nitric oxide, classes G and H per ASTM B845. However, this accelerated testing cannot duplicate every potential application environment. Users should use
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Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 22
...components to uncontrolled chemical pollutants and corrosive chemicals as electronic drive component reliability can be affected by the installation environment. The silver, copper, nickel and gold films used in Seagate products are especially sensitive to the presence of sulfide,... by replacing materials near circuitry with sulfide-free alternatives.
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... they are Device 0 (master) devices. Serial ATA drives are designed for easy installation. It is usually not necessary to set any jumpers on the drive for proper operation; however, if you connect the drive and receive a "drive not detected" error, your SATA-equipped motherboard or host adapter may use a chipset that does not support SATA speed autonegotiation.
3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors...
Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 24
... and Mounting the Drive
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For installations which require cables, you can connect the drive as illustrated in Figure 5. Figure 5 Attaching SATA cabling
Signal connector Power connector
Signal cable
Power cable
Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda drives support latching SATA connectors.
3.4 Drive mounting
You can mount the drive in any orientation...
Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 27
... Serial ATA interface and power connectors.
Table 6 Serial ATA connector pin definitions
Segment Pin
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
Signal
S7
Function Ground A+ AGround BB+ Ground
Definition 2nd mate Differential signal pair A from Phy
2nd mate Differential signal pair B from Phy
2nd mate
Power P1
V33
Key and spacing separate signal and power segments 3.3V power
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...-charge power pins and the other ground pins. • the signal pins and the rest of the power pins. 3. There are three power pins for each voltage. One pin from each voltage is used for pre-charge when installed in a blind-mate backplane configuration. 4. All used voltage pins (Vx) must be terminated.
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... the Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (http://www.sata-io.org).
See "S.M.A.R.T. commands" on page 36 for details and subcommands used in the S.M.A.R.T. implementation.
Table 7 Supported ATA commands Command name
Command code (in hex)
Check Power Mode Device Configuration Freeze Lock Device Configuration Identify Device Configuration Restore Device Configuration Set...
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..., padded with blanks to end of string)
Drive model number: (40 ASCII characters, padded with blanks to end of string)
(Bits 7-0) Maximum sectors per interrupt on Read multiple and Write multiple (16)
Value
0C5AH
16,383 0000H 16 0000H 0000H 003FH 0000H ASCII 0000H 0400H 0000H x.xx
8010H
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Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 36
... ATA-5 Standard.
SeaTools diagnostic software activates a built-in drive self-test (DST S.M.A.R.T. command for D4H) that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. The diagnostic software ships with all new drives and is also available at: http://seatools.seagate.com.
This drive is shipped with S.M.A.R.T. features disabled. You must have a recent BIOS or software package that supports S.M.A.R.T. to...
Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual - Page 37
... Laboratory (RRL) 20 L LBA mode 11 length 12 logical geometry 11 M master/slave 9 mounting 24 N noise 16 nonoperating shock 18 nonoperating vibration 18 O operating (DC power) 13 operating power 13 operating shock 18 operating vibration 18
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