Seagate Enterprise Performance - 3.5 HDD SAS Product Manual, Rev. B
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10.4.6 SAS transmitters and receivers
A typical SAS differential copper transmitter and receiver pair is shown in Figure 10. The receiver is AC coupling to eliminate ground shift noise.
Figure 10.
SAS transmitters and receivers
10.4.7 Power
The drive receives power (+5 volts and +12 volts) through the SAS device connector.
Three +12 volt pins provide power to the drive, 2 short and 1 long. The current return for the +12 volt power supply is through the common ground
pins. The supply current and return current must be distributed as evenly as possible among the pins.
Three +5 volt pins provide power to the drive, 2 short and 1 long. The current return for the +5 volt power supply is through the common ground
pins. The supply current and return current must be distributed as evenly as possible among the pins.
Current to the drive through the long power pins may be limited by the system to reduce inrush current to the drive during hot plugging.
10.5
Signal characteristics
This section describes the electrical signal characteristics of the drive’s input and output signals. See Table 10 for signal type and signal name
information.
10.5.1 Ready LED Out
The Ready LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 11.
Table 11 Ready LED Out conditions
Normal command activity
LED status
Ready LED Meaning bit mode page 19h
0
1
Spun down and no activity
Off
Off
Spun down and activity (command executing)
On
On
Spun up and no activity
On
Off
Spun up and activity (command executing)
Off
On
Spinning up or down
Blinks steadily
(50% on and 50% off, 0.5 seconds on and off for 0.5 seconds)
Format in progress, each cylinder change
Toggles on/off
Receiver
Differential
Transfer Medium
.01
.01
100
100
Transmitter
RX
RY
TX
TY
