Conner CFP2107 Series Product Manual

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Summary of CFP2107 Series

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    Cfp2107 series intelligent disk drive product manual october 1995 pre-release revision a 3081 zanker road san jose, ca 95134-2128 (408) 456-4500

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    Fcc notice this equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used properly; that is, in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, may cause interference to radio and television reception. It has been type tested and found to comply with the limits for a...

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    Important information about this manual all information contained in or disclosed by this document is considered proprietary by conner peripherals, inc. By accepting this material, the recipient agrees that this material and the information contained therein are held in confidence and in trust and w...

  • Page 5: Table of Contents

    Table of contents page i table of contents 1. Overview of the drives 1 what are the drives? 1 differences between the models 1 features of the drive 2 drive composition 3 mechanical design features 3 drive assembly housing 4 head positioning mechanism 5 read/write heads and disks 5 data and power co...

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    Table of contents filepro cfp2107 series page ii filepro cfp2107 series magnetic field: 14 acoustic noise: 14 safety standards 15 physical characteristics - cfp2107e 16 16 physical characteristics - cfp2107s 17 physical characteristics - cfp2107w 18 3. Drive operations 19 functions of the drive 19 d...

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    Filepro cfp2107 series table of contents technical reference manual page iii setting the scsi bus address - cfp2107w 39 disabling spin-up at power on - cfp2107w 40 delaying spin up at power on - cfp2107w 40 disabling the scsi bus parity - cfp2107w 41 disabling scsi bus terminator power (termpwr) - c...

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    Table of contents filepro cfp2107 series page iv filepro cfp2107 series model cfp2107w (wide, unitized scsi-3 p-connector) 61 external terminator power 61 internal termination 61 j5 auxiliary connector signal characteristics 62 cable requirements 62 connector requirements 63 interface pin assignment...

  • Page 9: Overview of The Drives

    Technical reference manual page 1 overview of the drives 1 what are the drives? The cfp2107 series is a family of high performance 3.5-inch low-profile (1.0 inch high) 2.1gb (formatted) disk drives. They all offer 8.5 millisecond average seek time for reading, 9.0 millisecond seek time for writing, ...

  • Page 10: Features of The Drive

    Chapter 1 overview of the drives page 2 filepro cfp2107 series connector wide interface, the standard 4-pin power and a 2mm pin pitch auxiliary connector into a single molded assembly. Cfp2107wd: scsi 68-pin wide differential interface designed for applications which require high interface bandwidth...

  • Page 11: Drive Composition

    Overview of the drives chapter 1 technical reference manual page 3 drive composition the drive is composed of mechanical, electrical, and firmware elements. Mechanical design features the drive’s hardware includes the components described in the following sections. Figure 1-1 shows the drive top lev...

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    Chapter 1 overview of the drives page 4 filepro cfp2107 series drive assembly housing the drive assembly housing, or head-disk assembly (hda) consists of a die-cast aluminum base on which is mounted a die-cast aluminum cover. Both the base and the cover are fabricated using an alloy and surface fini...

  • Page 13: Electrical Design Features

    Overview of the drives chapter 1 technical reference manual page 5 drive motor and spindle a brushless dc direct-drive motor assembly is mounted on the drive’s base. The motor rotates the drive’s spindle at 7200 rpm. The motor/spindle assembly is dynamically balanced to provide minimal mechanical ru...

  • Page 14: Firmware

    Chapter 1 overview of the drives page 6 filepro cfp2107 series (cache) is 16 bits wide to provide high data throughput. The scsi interface chip manages a 16-bit to 8-bit conversion prior to transacting data over the scsi bus for 8-bit narrow scsi applications. The data buffer (cache) utilizes a 256k...

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    Overview of the drives chapter 1 technical reference manual page 7 since parsing/decoding of commands and execution of the read/write functions are handled by separate processors, command execution can be overlapped in multiple initiator or tagged command queuing environments. Functions such as seek...

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    Chapter 1 overview of the drives page 8 filepro cfp2107 series.

  • Page 17: Specifications

    Technical reference manual page 9 specifications 2 specifications in this chapter this chapter provides the following specifications for the drive: • drive capacity • physical configuration • performance characteristics • read/write characteristics • reliability • power requirements • environmental ...

  • Page 18: Drive Capacity

    Chapter 2 specifications page 10 filepro cfp2107 series drive capacity formatted capacity* • cfp2107 series: 2147 mb *1mb is equal to 10 6 or 1,000,000 bytes physical configuration specification: cfp2107 series disk type sputtered thin film head type thin film - tpc actuator type rotary voice-coil n...

  • Page 19: Performance Characteristics

    Specifications chapter 2 technical reference manual page 11 performance characteristics seek times (typical)* • track to track: 2.0 msec • average (read/write): 8.5/9.0 msec** • full track: 18 msec * the timing is measured from the time the last byte of the command descriptor block is written to the...

  • Page 20: Read/write Characteristics

    Chapter 2 specifications page 12 filepro cfp2107 series read/write characteristics recording method • 1,7 rll code recording density (maximum) • 77,500 bits per inch flux density (maximum) • 58,100 bits per inch host interface characteristics command set • scsi-2 (refer to the eleventh generation sc...

  • Page 21: Reliability

    Specifications chapter 2 technical reference manual page 13 reliability data reliability • 14 bits read component design life • 5 years start/stop cycles • 20,000 minimum mean time between failures: • 1,000,000 power-on hours* * projected mtbf based on comparison of similar conner products preventiv...

  • Page 22: Environmental Tolerances

    Chapter 2 specifications page 14 filepro cfp2107 series environmental tolerances temperature: • operating: 5° to 55° c • non-operating: -40° to 60° c • thermal gradient: 20° c per hour maximum relative humidity (non-condensing): • operating: 5 to 95% • non-operating: 5 to 95% • maximum wet bulb: 29°...

  • Page 23: Safety Standards

    Specifications chapter 2 technical reference manual page 15 safety standards the drive is designed to comply with relevant product safety standards, including: • ul 478, 5th edition, standard for safety of information processing and business equipment • ul 1950, standard for safety of information te...

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    Chapter 2 specifications page 16 filepro cfp2107 series physical characteristics - cfp2107e height: • 1.0 inch + .020 width: • 4.0 inches + .020 depth: • 5.75 inches + .030 weight: • 1.4 pounds figure 2-2 the drive’s physical dimensions j3 j1 ss led 6x 6-32 unc-2b .16 [4.06] max. Insertion .250 [6.3...

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    Specifications chapter 2 technical reference manual page 17 physical characteristics - cfp2107s height: • 1.0 inch + .020 width: • 4.0 inches + .020 depth: • 5.75 inches + .030 weight: • 1.4 pounds figure 2-3 the drive’s physical dimensions .250 [6.36] .63 [16.00] 2.362 [59.99] 4.000 [101.60] j3 j1 ...

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    Chapter 2 specifications page 18 filepro cfp2107 series physical characteristics - cfp2107w height: • 1.0 inch + .020 width: • 4.0 inches + .020 depth: • 5.75 inches + .020 weight: • 1.4 pounds figure 2-4 the drive’s physical dimensions j3 j1 j4 j2 e8 ss led .250 [6.36] 2.362 [59.99] [25.40 +0.51] 1...

  • Page 27: Drive Operations

    Technical reference manual page 19 drive operations 3 functions of the drive this chapter describes certain operational aspects of the drive, including discussions of: • drive operational modes • error correction • read error recovery • downloadable microcode • buffer management drive operational mo...

  • Page 28: Data Error Correction

    Chapter 3 drive operations page 20 filepro cfp2107 series data error correction the drive uses a three way interleaved 96-bit reed-solomon code to perform error correction. An additional 48-bit cyclic redundancy code (crc) provides additional miscorrection detection. For each 512-byte block, the on-...

  • Page 29: Tagged Command Queuing

    Drive operations chapter 3 technical reference manual page 21 command execution and buffer management the drive dynamically adapts to queuing and non queuing depending on whether a queue tag message is presented with the command. A 512kbyte onboard segmented buffer is dynamically configured to adapt...

  • Page 30: Read Look Ahead Code

    Chapter 3 drive operations page 22 filepro cfp2107 series coalescing read and write commands are coalesced (combined into a single operation to the background processor) to minimize inter processor communication overhead and reduce mechanical motion. On a read operation, the data associated with eac...

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    Drive operations chapter 3 technical reference manual page 23 read retention on (read retention priority = 0 or f): the interface processor initiates a full segment read of 253 sectors (fd h blocks) to the background processor. There are three different situations which would be considered a cache h...

  • Page 32: Write Caching

    Chapter 3 drive operations page 24 filepro cfp2107 series write caching write caching allows multiple write commands operating on sequential blocks to be written to the medium without losing a motor revolution between commands. Write caching is enabled by setting the wce bit in mode select page 8 to...

  • Page 33: Installing The Drive

    Technical reference manual page 25 installing the drive 4 take these precautions to protect your equipment from electrostatic damage, perform the installation at a static-safe workstation. If one is not available, follow these guidelines: 1. Work in an uncarpeted area. 2. Before removing the equipme...

  • Page 34: Installing A Cfp2107E

    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 26 filepro cfp2107 series installing a cfp2107e the following paragraphs describe the installation procedure for a 16-bit single connector attachment (sca) interface, model cfp2107e drive. Setting the drive's jumpers - cfp2107e there are no jumpers to set on the m...

  • Page 35: Cabling The Drive - Cfp2107E

    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 27 disabling spin-up at power on - cfp2107e spin up upon application of power to the drive can be disabled by grounding the rmt_start line on the interface. Disabling spin up on application of power can also be enabled by setting the dsp...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 28 filepro cfp2107 series the design of the scsi bus interconnect system should meet the following guidelines, particularly with fast scsi-2 systems: • do not route the data signals next to any high frequency or large current switching signals. Unreliable drive op...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 29 mounting the drive - cfp2107e the drive is designed to be used in applications where the unit may experience shock and vibrations at greater levels than larger and heavier disk drives will tolerate. The design features which allow gre...

  • Page 38: Installing A Cfp2107S

    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 30 filepro cfp2107 series installing a cfp2107s the following paragraphs describe the installation procedure for a 8-bit, 50-pin scsi-2 interface, model cfp2107s drive. Setting the drive's jumpers - cfp2107s figure 4-3 shows you where the drive’s jumpers are locat...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 31 setting the scsi bus address - cfp2107s there are three jumpers available for configuration of the scsi id: e1, e2, and e3. An optional 2mm pin pitch right angle header is located on the front of the pcba (opposite the scsi interface ...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 32 filepro cfp2107 series disabling spin-up at power on - cfp2107s a jumper in the e5 location, disables spin up after power-on for applications where spin up sequencing is necessary. Disabling spin up on application of power can also be enabled by setting the dsp...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 33 disabling the scsi bus parity - cfp2107s scsi parity is always enabled in both directions, unless the e7 parity disable jumper is installed. Installing the jumper will cause the drive to ignore scsi bus parity in but it will continue ...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 34 filepro cfp2107 series setting the bus termination - cfp2107s this drive provides on-board alternative 2 active termination for the scsi bus. The termination resistors, which are contained in two single inline packs (sips) should be removed from the drive unles...

  • Page 43: Cabling The Drive - Cfp2107S

    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 35 cabling the drive - cfp2107s connect the scsi interface cable and the spindle synchronization cable (when needed) as shown in figure 4-5. Figure 4-5 connecting the cabling j3 j1 j4 j2 ss led pin 1 (typically indicated by a colored str...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 36 filepro cfp2107 series attaching power to the drive - cfp2107s the drive has a 4-pin dc power connector, j4 mounted on the pcb. The recommended mating connector is amp part number 1-480424-0 utilizing amp pins, part number 350078-4 or equivalent. Connect the dc...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 37 mounted on the drive at the location shown below should remain at or below 55°c while the drive(s) are operated at the worst case condition. The enclosure design should allow air flow above and below the drive to cool both the hda and...

  • Page 46: Installing A Cfp2107W

    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 38 filepro cfp2107 series installing a cfp2107w setting the drive’s jumpers - cfp2107w figure 4-6 shows you where to access the drive’s jumpers. Figure 4-6 jumper locations j3 j1 j4 j2 e8 ss led e1. . .E4 e7 (disable parity) e6 (delay spin) e5 (disable spin) j5 21...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 39 setting the scsi bus address - cfp2107w there are four jumpers available for configuration of the scsi id: e1, e2, e3 and e4. The 68-pin unified connector includes a standard 2mm pitch auxiliary header which includes pins to allow rem...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 40 filepro cfp2107 series disabling spin-up at power on - cfp2107w a jumper in the e5 location, disables spin up on power-on for applications where spin up sequencing is necessary. Disabling spin up on application of power can also be enabled by setting the dspn b...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 41 disabling the scsi bus parity - cfp2107w scsi parity is always enabled in both directions, unless the e7 parity disable jumper is installed. Setting the jumper will cause the drive to ignore scsi bus parity in but it will continue to ...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 42 filepro cfp2107 series if scsi id sel0 is intended to be selected, the host must provide a low impedance connection from - sel (0) to - xtfalt or to ground, while the id is being latched, through an appropriate means. Refer to chapter 5 for specific electrical ...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 43 - spsync this signal used to provide a spindle rotation synchronization reference. The pins for all of the drives which are to be synchronized must be connected together. The drives must be of like model to operate. The spindles are s...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 44 filepro cfp2107 series setting the bus termination - cfp2107w this drive provides on board alternative 2 active termination for the scsi bus. The termination resistors, which are contained in three single inline packs (sips) should be removed from the drive unl...

  • Page 53: Cabling The Drive - Cfp2107W

    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 45 cabling the drive - cfp2107w connect the scsi interface cable and the spindle synchronization cable (when needed) as shown in figure 4-8. Figure 4-8 connecting the cabling j1 j4 j2 e8 j3 ss led 68-pin scsi interface connection 4-pin p...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 46 filepro cfp2107 series mixing wide and narrow scsi devices on a scsi bus it may sometimes be desirable to attach narrow scsi devices such as tape backup devices or cdroms to the same scsi host bus adapter being used to control wide scsi devices, such as the cfp...

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    Installing the drive chapter 4 technical reference manual page 47 attaching power to the drive - cfp2107w the drive has a 4-pin dc power connector, j4, which is part of the unified connector, mounted on the pcb. The recommended mating connector is amp part number 1-480424-0 utilizing amp pins, part ...

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    Chapter 4 installing the drive page 48 filepro cfp2107 series cooling the enclosure design for the drive must provide adequate provision for removing heat generated by the drive via conduction or air flow convection cooling. The maximum operating temperature for the drive is 55°c. A temperature sens...

  • Page 57: Electrical Description

    Technical reference manual page 49 interface physical characteristics 5 electrical description the paragraphs which follow describe the input and output electrical characteristics of the drive. Output characteristics the output drivers for data, parity, req and ack are optionally active negation. Wh...

  • Page 58: Input Characteristics

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 50 filepro cfp2107 series input characteristics the characteristics of the input receivers and the requirements for each signal received by the drive as measured at the drive connector are shown in table 5-3: table 5-3 drive input signal characteristics s...

  • Page 59: External Terminator Power

    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 51 cfp2107e (wide, 80-pin single connector attachment [sca]) external terminator power the interface connector carries both power and ground so a separate termpwr interface line is not provided. Internal termination this version...

  • Page 60: Connector Requirements

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 52 filepro cfp2107 series connector requirements the drive's connector will mate with a amp champ 2-557103-1 vertical receptacle or the amp champ 2-557101-1 right angle receptacle. A mating connector which is compatible with 0.025 inch (0.63 mm) centerlin...

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    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 53 output characteristics of the led driver signal state current drive available output voltage drive led off 0 oh µ a drive led on i ol 0 ol motor start controls table 5-6 electrical characteristics for rmt_start and dlyd_start...

  • Page 62: Interface Pin Assignments

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 54 filepro cfp2107 series interface pin assignments the pin assignments for the interface connector are shown below: table 5-8 interface signal definitions pin signal pin signal 1 +12 volt 41 +12 volt ground 2 +12 volt 42 +12 volt ground 3 +12 volt 43 +12...

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    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 55 interface timing requirements unless otherwise noted, the delay-time measurements are calculated from signal conditions existing at the drive's own scsi bus connector. Normally these measurements (except cable skew delay) can...

  • Page 64: External Terminator Power

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 56 filepro cfp2107 series model cfp2107s (narrow, 50-pin scsi) external terminator power power to the on-board terminators is provided by the higher of the voltage supplied at pin #26, j2 or the voltage level at the 5 volt power input to the drive minus o...

  • Page 65: Cable Requirements

    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 57 cable requirements a 50 conductor cable no more than 6 meters (19.68 feet) cumulative length with at least 28 awg wire size and a characteristic impedance of 70 to 100 ohms (84 ohms nominal) is required. In systems which use ...

  • Page 66: Connector Requirements

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 58 filepro cfp2107 series connector requirements the connector on the drive is a 50-position header which consists of 2 rows of 25 male pins on 0.100 inch centers. The mating connector is a scsi-2 non-shielded alternative 1, a-cable connector which is sho...

  • Page 67: Interface Pin Assignments

    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 59 interface pin assignments the pin assignments for the interface connector are shown below: table 5-13 interface signal definitions pin signal pin signal 01 gnd 02 -db0 03 gnd 04 -db1 05 gnd 06 -db2 07 gnd 08 -db3 09 gnd 10 -d...

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    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 60 filepro cfp2107 series interface timing requirements unless otherwise noted, the delay-time measurements are calculated from signal conditions existing at the drive's own scsi bus connector. Normally these measurements (except cable skew delay) can be ...

  • Page 69: External Terminator Power

    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 61 model cfp2107w (wide, unitized scsi-3 p-connector) external terminator power power to the on-board terminators is provided by the higher of the voltage supplied at pin #17, 18, 51, & 52, j2 or the voltage level at the 5 volt ...

  • Page 70: Cable Requirements

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 62 filepro cfp2107 series j5 auxiliary connector signal characteristics table 5-17 j5 auxiliary interface electrical characteristics state current voltage high 0 ih µ a 2.5 v ih cc + 0.3 v low 0 oh -0.1 v il cable requirements a 68 conductor cable no more...

  • Page 71: Connector Requirements

    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 63 connector requirements the connector on the drive is a 68-pin . The mating connector is a scsi 3 non- shielded p-cable connector which is shown below: figure 5-4 p-cable connector pin 35 a4 a7 a5 pin 68 a12 v a2 pin 1 m s s t...

  • Page 72: Interface Pin Assignments

    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 64 filepro cfp2107 series interface pin assignments the pin assignments for the interface connector are shown below: table 5-19 interface signal definitions pin signal pin signal 1 ground 35 -db(12) 2 ground 36 -db(13) 3 ground 37 -db(14) 4 ground 38 -db(...

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    Scsi physical characteristics chapter 5 technical reference manual page 65 interface timing requirements unless otherwise noted, the delay-time measurements are calculated from signal conditions existing at the drive's own scsi bus connector. Normally these measurements (except cable skew delay) can...

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    Chapter 5 scsi physical characteristics page 66 filepro cfp2107 series.

  • Page 75: Scsi Command Implementation

    Technical reference manual page 67 scsi command implementation 6 this section contains a brief summary of the scsi interface implemented in the drive. For additional details regarding command descriptions, please refer to the eleventh generation scsi interface manual. Scsi command summary following ...

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    Chapter 6 scsi command implementation page 68 filepro cfp2107 series format drive page - 03h the format drive page contains parameters which specify the medium format. Table 6-1 format drive page format bit byte 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 rsvd rsvd page code = 03 h 1 page length = 16 h 2 tracks per zone (msb...

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    Scsi command implementation chapter 6 technical reference manual page 69 tracks per zone: defines the number of tracks per zone to use in dividing the capacity of the drive for the purpose of allocating alternate sectors. A value of zero means that one zone is defined for the entire drive. Alternate...

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    Chapter 6 scsi command implementation page 70 filepro cfp2107 series drive geometry page - 04 h table 6-2 drive geometry page bit byte 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 rsvd rsvd page code = 04h 1 page length = 16 h 2 number of cylinders (msb) (00 h ) 3 number of cylinders (0f h ) 4 number of cylinders (lsb) (9f h ...

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    Scsi command implementation chapter 6 technical reference manual page 71 rpl (rotational position locking): enables spindle synchronization. Setting either bit 0 or 1, or both, causes multiple drives which have their spindle synchronization (ss) pins daisy chained together to synchronize their spind...

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    Chapter 6 scsi command implementation page 72 filepro cfp2107 series table 6-3 notch and partition parameters page format bit byte 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 rsvd rsvd page code - och 1 page length = 16h 2 nd (1) lpn reserved 3 reserved 4 maximum number of notches (msb) (00 h ) 5 maximum number of notches (l...

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    Scsi command implementation chapter 6 technical reference manual page 73 nd (notched drive): if set to zero, the drive is not notched and all other parameters in this page are returned as zeros. If set to one, the drive is notched and this page defines the starting and ending boundaries for each act...