Installation
Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive
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Page 1: ...QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Product Manual January 13 2006 Part Number 000001931...
Page 2: ...meets the EU directive for the Restriction and Use of Hazardous Substances RoHS 2002 95 EC of the European Parliament and the council of 27 January 2003 Korean EMC certifications are issued by Radio R...
Page 3: ...cting its use copying distributing and decompilation No part of this product or document may be repro duced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Maxtor and its licensors if...
Page 4: ...follow these precautions and guidelines outlined here may lead to product failure damage and invalidation of all warranties 1 BEFORE unpacking or handling a drive take all proper electrostatic dischar...
Page 5: ...apter Board 3 5 3 4 ATA Bus Interface Connector J1 Section C 3 8 3 5 MOUNTING 3 8 3 5 1 Orientation 3 8 3 5 2 Clearance 3 11 3 5 3 Ventilation 3 11 3 6 FOR SYSTEMS WITH AN ATA ADAPTER BOARD 3 12 3 6 1...
Page 6: ...ian Emissions Statement 4 8 4 11 Safety Regulatory Compliance 4 8 Chapter 5 SATA BUS INTERFACE AND ATA COMMANDS 5 1 INTRODUCTION 5 1 5 2 MECHANICAL INTERFACE 5 1 5 2 1 Signal Cable and Connector 5 1 5...
Page 7: ...20 Pack Shipping Container 3 3 Figure 3 3 Data Transfer Rate Jumper Pin Options 3 4 Figure 3 4 The QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Interface Connector 3 5 Figure 3 5 Mounting Screw Clearance and Mount...
Page 8: ...QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive iv Table 3 1 Device plug connector pin definition 3 6 Table 3 2 Logical Addressing Format 3 14 Table 5 1 Supported Commands 5 2 Table 5 2 Identify Drive...
Page 9: ...nclude the end user installers developers consumer electronics and personal computer original equipment manufacturers CE PC OEM and distributors This manual provides information about installation pri...
Page 10: ...sents pk pk shaker displacement dB decibels dBA decibels A weighted DPS Data Protection System ECC Error Correcting Code Gbit s gigabits per second GB gigabyte G rms root means square Hz hertz Kfci th...
Page 11: ...hexadecimal notation is given in 9 point subscript form An example is 30H Signal Negation A signal name that is defined as active low is listed with a minus sign following the signal An example is RD...
Page 12: ...rity Serial ATA hardware is smaller and more compact than traditional Parallel ATA componets A powerful command set and hot plug feature make SATA very attractive for ATA RAID applications With a maxi...
Page 13: ...ice connection Low voltages Interface power control features Easy installation configuration plug play no jumpers no external terminators Command optimization Native Command Queuing using First Party...
Page 14: ...ndard C 22 2 No 1950 This certificate is a category certification pertaining to all 3 5 inch series drives models TUV Rheinland Standard EN60 950 This certificate is a category certification pertainin...
Page 15: ...uickView Serial ATA Serial ATA hard disk drive is compatible with the IBM PC AT and other computers that are compatible with the IBM PC AT It connects to the PC either by means of a third partySATA ad...
Page 16: ...kView Serial ATA hard disk drive prior to operation It also explains how to start up format and operate the drive 3 1 SPACE REQUIREMENTS Figure 3 1 shows the external dimensions of the QuickView Seria...
Page 17: ...their sides 8 When you are ready to install the drive remove it from the ESD bag CAUTION The maximum limits for physical shock can be exceeded if the drive is not handled properly Special care should...
Page 18: ...Installation Maxtor QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive 3 3 Figure 3 2 20 Pack Shipping Container...
Page 19: ...ct NC pins for the purpose of storing a jumper when not in use For normal operations no action is necessary However if your motherboard does not support the Gen II 3Gbps data rate you will need to lim...
Page 20: ...uilt in Serial ATA interface connector you must install a Serial ATA adapter board and connecting cable to allow the drive to interface with your system Maxtor does not supply such an adapter board bu...
Page 21: ...ound 2nd mate P6 Ground 2nd mate P7 V5 5V power pre charge 2nd mate P8 V5 5V power P9 V5 5V power P10 Ground 2nd mate P11 Staggered Spin LED 1 Pin 11 before PHY initialization is used to detect stagge...
Page 22: ...e cable connector J1 section C is a standard 7 pin Serial ATA See Figure 3 4 To prevent the possibility of incorrect installation the connector has been keyed This ensures that a connector cannot be i...
Page 23: ...Installation 3 8 Maxtor QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive Figure 3 5 Mounting Screw Clearance and Mounting Screw Locations...
Page 24: ...Installation Maxtor QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive 3 9 Figure 3 6 QuickView Serial ATA Mounting Dimensions...
Page 25: ...cooling Clearance from the drive to any surface above and below the drive must be a minimum of 1 25mm Maxtor leaves the design and application of cooling and clearance for the disk drive to the user b...
Page 26: ...Installation Maxtor QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive 3 11 Figure 3 7 Lengthwise Airflow Cooling Figure 3 8 Crosswise Airflow Cooling...
Page 27: ...set all jumper straps on the adapter board to avoid addressing and signal conflicts 3 7 TECHNIQUES IN DRIVE CONFIGURATION 3 7 1 Operating System Limitations Most popular operating systems available to...
Page 28: ...wnload Maxtor s Big Drive Enabler is a one step executable that enables support for drives larger than 137 Gigabytes in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and XP Service Pack 1 This utility takes the guess w...
Page 29: ...an 8 4GB Default logical cylinders is limited to 16 383 as per the ATA 4 specifications To match the logical specifications of the drive to the drive type of a particular BIOS consult the system s dri...
Page 30: ...e capacity varies depending on operating environment Sectors per Drive max LBA 781 422 768 976 733 168 Integrated Interface 1 5 3 0 Gb s Native Serial ATA Recording Method RLL EEPR4 Servo Type Embedde...
Page 31: ...0 1 7217 Data Transfer Speed MByte sec max SATA150 300 To From Interface 115 MB per sec 225 MB per sec To From Media ID OD up to nn n where nn n is the maximum transfer rate possi ble 35 MB per sec 6...
Page 32: ...Spin up peak 2126 881 29 9 Spin up peak Max 2181 57 901 66 30 69 Seek 834 726 13 6 Random Read Write 687 735 11 9 Idle 436 567 8 1 Standby 19 392 2 2 Sleep 19 392 2 2 MODE 12V mA 5V mA POWER W Spin u...
Page 33: ...e drive is capable of responding to read commands within 40 ms Standby The motor is not spinning The drive will leave this mode upon receipt of a command that requires disk access The time out value f...
Page 34: ...in acoustic levels from the idle specification may occur due to offline activity according to the SMART specification and or atmospheric conditions PARAMETER OPERATING NON OPERATING STORAGE Temperatur...
Page 35: ...2 msec 1 2 sine R 0 90 300G Rotational Shock R 0 988 2000 rad sec2 Rotational Random Vibration 10 2000 Hz 12 5 Rad Sec2 2 300 Hz 95 4 rad sec2 Random Vibration 10 2000 Hz 0 86G RMS Overall PSD 7 800...
Page 36: ...it returns Start Stop Cycles 50 000 This indicates the average minimum cycles for reliable start stop function R 0 9998 4500 R 0 9995 7500 R 0 5 50000 Data Reliability 1 in1015 bits read Data errors n...
Page 37: ...hanism is installed in a typical personal computer Maxtor recommends that testing and analysis for EMC compliance be performed with the disk mechanism installed within the user s end use application 4...
Page 38: ...ector The Maxtor QuickView Serial ATA 400 500GB hard disk drive contains unitized connector for both signal and power connections The dimensions and specifications of the unitized connector comply wit...
Page 39: ...ver is elaborated in the section Identify Drive Command on page 5 5 Note 1 As defined in the ATA ATAPI 7 standard Table 5 1 lists the supported commands Table 5 1 Supported Commands Command Command Co...
Page 40: ...40h 41h READ VERIFY SECTOR S EXTENSION 42h SECURITY DISABLE PASSWORD F6h SECURITY ERASE PREPARE F3h SECURITY ERASE UNIT F4h SECURITY FREEZE LOCK F5h SECURITY SET PASSWORD F1h SECURITY UNLOCK F2h SEEK...
Page 41: ...IMMEDIATE B0h D4h SMART READ DATA B0h D0h SMART READ LOG B0h D5h SMART RETURN STATUS B0h DAh SMART SAVE ATTRIBUTE VALUES B0h D3h SMART WRITE LOG B0h D6h STANDBY 96h E2h STANDBY IMMEDIATE 94h E0h WRITE...
Page 42: ...n the buffer are shown in Table 5 2 Note All reserved bits or words should be zeroes Table 5 2 Identify Drive Command Parameters Word CONTENT DESCRIPTION 0 General configuration bit significant inform...
Page 43: ...ACKET DEVICE command 13 1 Standby timer values as specified in this standard are supported 0 Standby timer values shall be managed by the device 12 Reserved for the IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command 11 1...
Page 44: ...addressable sectors 62 Obsolete 63 15 11 Reserved 10 1 Multiword DMA mode 2 is selected 0 Multiword DMA mode 2 is not selected 9 1 Multiword DMA mode 1 is selected 0 Multiword DMA mode 1 is not selec...
Page 45: ...e depth 15 5 Reserved 4 0 Maximum queue depth 1 76 79 Reserved for Serial ATA 80 Major version number 0000h or FFFFh device does not report version 15 Reserved 14 Reserved for ATA ATAPI 14 13 Reserved...
Page 46: ...ad supported 5 1 write cache supported 4 Shall be cleared to zero to indicate that the PACKET Command feature set is not supported 3 1 mandatory Power Management feature set supported 2 1 Removable Me...
Page 47: ...be cleared to zero 14 Shall be set to one 13 8 Reserved 7 1 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT command supported 6 1 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MULTIPLE FUA EXT commands supported 5 1 General Purpose Logging f...
Page 48: ...supported 10 1 48 bit Address features set supported 9 1 Automatic Acoustic Management feature set enabled 8 1 SET MAX security extension enabled by SET MAX SET PASSWORD 7 See Address Offset Reserved...
Page 49: ...11 1 Ultra DMA mode 3 is selected 0 Ultra DMA mode 3 is not selected 10 1 Ultra DMA mode 2 is selected 0 Ultra DMA mode 2 is not selected 9 1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is selected 0 Ultra DMA mode 1 is not sel...
Page 50: ...signal was used 11 some other method was used or the method is unknown 8 Shall be set to one 7 0 Device 0 hardware reset result Device 1 shall clear these bits to zero Device shall set these bits as f...
Page 51: ...PIO 105 Stream Access Latency PIO 106 Physical sector size 15 Shall be cleared to zero 14 Shall be set to one 13 1 Device has multiple logical sectors per physical sector 12 4 Reserved 3 0 2X logical...
Page 52: ...evel 0 High 1 Maximum 7 6 Reserved 5 1 Enhanced security erase supported 4 1 Security count expired 3 1 Security frozen 2 1 Security locked 1 1 Security enabled 0 1 Security supported 129 159 Vendor s...
Page 53: ...SATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 5 16 Maxtor QuickView 400 500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive...
Page 54: ...lease visit www maxtor com to obtain comprehensive support information such as Warranty Services Drive returns RMS Warranty Status Limited Warranty Statement Product Support Installation Tutorials Spe...
Page 55: ...in case the original is accidentally erased damaged or destroyed BAD BLOCK A block usually the size of a sector that cannot reliably hold data because of a media flaw or damaged format markings BAD T...
Page 56: ...xtracts the data from the combined data and clock signal DEDICATED SERVO A surface separate from the surface used for data that contains only disk timing and positioning information and contains no da...
Page 57: ...while it is on the network A non dedicated file server can be used simultaneously as a file server and a workstation FLUX DENSITY The number of magnetic field patterns that can be stored in a given l...
Page 58: ...he disk controller and disk drive that manages the exchange of data between the drive and computer INTERLEAVE The arrangement of sectors on a track A 1 1 interleave arranges the sectors so that the ne...
Page 59: ...he media is where the data is stored inside the disk in the form of magnetic flux or polarity changes MEGABYTE Mb A unit of measurement equal to 1 024 kilobytes or 1 048 576 bytes except when referrin...
Page 60: ...r other rigid material that is mounted inside a fixed disk drive Most drives use more than one platter mounted on a single spindle shaft to provide more data storage surfaces in a small package The pl...
Page 61: ...along a track on the disk or the data that is stored in that section Hard disks most often have sectors that are 512 data bytes long plus several bytes overhead for error correcting codes Each sector...
Page 62: ...erhead head switches and seeks U UNFORMATTED CAPACITY The total number of bytes of data that could be fit onto a disk Formatting the disk requires some of this space to record location boundary defini...
Page 63: ...DE bus interface 5 1 IDE bus interface connector 3 11 3 16 input power connections 3 11 3 14 interface IDE bus 5 1 J jumper configurations 3 6 jumper locations 3 5 jumper options 3 6 M maximum screw t...
