Time Base Generator........................29 5.2.3.2 Automatic Gain Control ......................29 5.2.3.3 Asymmetry Correction Circuitry (ASC) ..................29 5.2.3.4 Analog Anti-Aliasing Low Pass Filter ..................30 5.2.3.5 Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) and FIR ................30 Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Chapter 4 - INSTALLATION Chapter 5 - DISK DRIVE OPERATION Chapter 6 - SATA INTERFACE Chapter 7 - MAINTENANCE In addition, this manual contains a glossary of terms to help you understand important information Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment, Rev. 1.0a, January 7, 2003, Serial Workgroup. (URL: http://www.serialdata.org retrieved on May 22, 2003) Serial ATA II: Port Multiplier 1.0 Specification, April 29th, 2003. (URL: http://www.serialdata.org retrieved on May 22, 2003) Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
(HDA), through a non-replaceable absolute filter ensuring a contamination free environment for the heads and disks throughout the life of the drive. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Noise predictive PRML read channel TA detection and correction TuMR/PMR head SMART III support 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The Spinpoint M8 hard disk drive is designed for use with host computers and controllers that are ATA compatible. It is connected to a PC either by: Using an adapter board with SATA interface, or Plugging a cable from the drive directly into a PC motherboard with a SATA interface Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Total Number of 625,142,448 976,773,168 1,465,149,168 1,953,525,168 logical sectors Capacity 320GB 500GB 750GB 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Startup time is the time elapsed between the supply voltages reaching operating range and the drive being ready to accept all commands. Actual rotational speed can be different a little. Performance specification is limited to the room temperature & normal voltage condition. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
1) Random seek: 30% Duty cycle seek commands with logical random location. 2) Read/Write: Avg. Read/Write operation at OD for 32 sectors. 3) All the power should be measured at the room temperature and normal voltage condition. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Normal I/O duty cycle for consumer electronics environments. Operation at excessive I/O duty cycle may degrade product reliability. The consumer electronics environment of power-on-hours, temperature, and I/O duty cycle affect the product AFR. The AFR will be degraded if used in a enterprise application. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
This chapter describes how to unpack, mount, configure and connect a Spinpoint M8 hard disk drive. It also describes how to install the drive in systems. Space Requirements Figure 4-1 shows the external dimensions of the drive. Figure 4-1: Mechanical Dimension Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
(1) Be sure that the system power is off. (2) For mounting, use four M3 screws. CAUTION: Torque applied to the screws is recommended to be 3.5 [kg* cm] ±0.5 (3.0 [inch *pounds] ± 0.5) Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Figure 4-2 shows the physical dimensions and mounting holes located o n each side of the drive. The mounting holes on Spinpoint M8 hard disk drive allow the drive to be mounted in any direction. Figure 4-2: Mounting Dimensions Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
(c) signal cable receptacle connector mating with (a), and (d) power cable receptacle connector to be mated with (b). For more information, please refer to SATA Specifications cited in the reference. Figure 4-4 Serial ATA Connector Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Figure 4-5 illustrates Connectivity of SATA to drives. It can be used with a SATA host adapter (lower picture) or directly into motherboard that has the SATA built-in host bus adapter (upper picture). Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Device Activity This pin was reserved in SATA 1.0a / Stagger Spin- up Control Ground Ground 12 v 12 v 12 v * First Mate Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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SATA adapter in the computer. Figure 4.6 illustrates the power, SATA, and factory use only jumper. Figure 4.7 shows pin locations on the SATA drive. Figure 4-6 HDD Power, SATA Interface, and Factory Jumper Connector Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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INSTALLATION Figure 4-7 Pin Locations on the Drive PCBA Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The Spinpoint M8 hard disk drive can be installed in a SATA compatible system Figure 4-8 indicates the interface and power cable connections required for proper drive installation. Figure 4-8 DC Power Connector and SATA-Bus Interface Cable Connections Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The entire spindle motor assembl y is completely enclosed in the HDA and integrated to the base casting. The labyrinth seal prevents bearing lubricant from coming out into the HDA. The motor rotates the spindle shaft at 5400 rpm. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Figure 5-2 illustrates the relationships between the various blocks within the AT disk controller. These blocks will be referred to throughout this document. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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32-bit ARM Disk Controller Buffer Control Block Figure 5-2: Spinpoint M8 Functional Block Diagram Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
A prioritized five ports architecture is implemented. All ports, except the refresh port, utilize 22-bit buffer address pointers. The data path to the buffer RAM can be configured as 16-bit path in ATA mode. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
ATA size sectors. 5.2.2.5 Frequency Synthesizer The frequency synthesizer is a clock frequency generation circuit used to generate a DSP clock, AT disk controller and servo clock from the External Reference clock input. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The ASC circuit is designed to correct for amplitude asymmetry introduced by MR heads. The compensation range of this circuit is +/-30%. This circuit allows optimal bias current to be used independent of the asymmetry effect. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The output of the analog filter is quantified using a 6 bit FLASH ADC. The digitized data is then equalized by the FIR to the NPV target response for Viterbi detection. The FIR filter consists of 10 independent programmable taps. Figure 5-3: Read/Write 88C9410 Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
88i9422 checks to see if the firmware needs to apply an ECC algorithm to the data. The Buffer Control section of the 88i9422 stores the data in the cache and transmits the data to the AT bus. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
RAM. If the host requests this data, the RAM is accessed rather than the disk. There is a high probability that subsequent data requested will be in the cache, because more than 50 percent of all Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
If the sector is not automatically relocated, the drive drops out of write caching and reports the error as an ID Not Found. If the write command is still active on the AT interface, the error is reported during that command. Otherwise, it is reported on the next command. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Device performance may increase with increasing power management levels. Device power consumption may increase with increasing power management levels. This feature is enabled by the Set Features command. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The control variable has the value D (for data characters) or K (for control characters). CRC-In Serial ATA a 32-bit CRC is calculated over the contents of a FIS. The Serial ATA CRC is the Dword in a frame that immediately precedes the EOF primitive. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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Additional usage restrictions in Serial ATA result in a further reduction in the SATA defined control character space. OOB SIGNAL DETECTOR-This block decodes Out of Band signal from the high speed input signal path. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
This register contains the same information as the Status register in the Command Block register. The only difference is that reading this register does not imply interrupt acknowledgment nor does it clear a pending interrupt. DRDY Obsolete Obsolete NOTE: See 6.3.4.10 for definitions of the bits in this register. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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, a reset, or completion of an Execute Drive Diagnostic command, this register contains a Diagnostic Code. ABRT Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Device Register (Ex. 1F6h) This register contains the drive and head numbers. When executing an Initialize Drive Parameters command, the content of this register defines the number of heads minus 1. Obsolete Obsolete Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
• E R R (Error) indicates that an error occurred during execution of the previous command. The bits in the Error register have additional information regarding the cause of the error. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
NCQ command from its reception to the reordering and command execution. The drive intelligent firmware is capable of sorting the physical address of the incoming commands and decides the execution order for the best performance. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Data FIS R_ERR ending status due to non-CRC errors (received) 010h Optional Non-data FIS R_ERR ending status due to CRC errors (received) 012h Optional Non-data FIS R_ERR ending status due to non-CRC errors 013h (received) Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The device will also issues PM request when this feature is enabled by the host. The host enables the PM feature by a Set Feature command with proper feature data. After the feature is enabled, the device will make a PM request when entering the Standby or Sleep modes. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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SC = Sector Count register Pre = Previous The register contains a valid parameter for this command. Type 1 is ATA-7 commands; type 2 is SATA II commands *3 It is created for compatibility reason. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Should a Device Configuration Set command be issued reducing the capabilities, the response to a Device Configuration Identify command will reflect the reduced set of capabilities accordingly. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
1 = Reporting support for non-zero buffer offsets in DMA Setup FIS (reserved) 1 = Reporting support for native command queuing Reserved for serial ATA 10-191 Reserved 192-254 Integrity word 15-8 Checksum Signature Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The device first transfers the least significant bits, bits 15 through 0 of the value, on bits DD15 through DD0 respectively. After the least significant bits have been transferred, the most significant bits, bits 31 through 16 of the value, are transferred on DD15 through DD0 respectively. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
0=IORDY may be supported 1=IORDY may be disabled LBA supported DMA supported Retired 4000h Capabilities 0200h PIO data transfer cycle timing mode (Obsolete) 0200h DMA data transfer cycle timing mode (Obsolete) 0007h 15-3 Reserved Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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Supports DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization Supports non-zero buffer offsets in DMA Setup FIS Reserved (set to 0) Serial ATA feature enabled 15-7 Reserved Software settings preservation enabled 0040h Reserved In-order data delivery enabled Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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64-bit World wide name supported 1=Write DMA Queued FUA Ext command supported 1=Write DMA FUA Ext and Write Multiple FUA Ext command supported 1=General purpose logging feature set supported 1=Streaming feature set supported Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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General Purpose logging feature set supported 1=Valid CONFIGURATION STREAM command has been executed 1=Media Card Pass Through command feature set enabled 1=Media serial number is valid 1=SMART self-test supported 1=SMART error logging supported Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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119-126 0000h Reserved 0000h Removable Media Status Notification feature set support 0021h Security status 15-9 Reserved Security level 0=High, 1=Maximum Reserved 1=Enhanced security erase supported 1=Security count expired Secur i ty frozen (continued) Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
8.2.9 Idle Immediate (E1h) This command causes the drive to enter Idle Mode, clear BSY, and generate an interrupt. The interrupt is generated even though the drive may not have fully transitioned to Idle Mode. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The Spinpoint M8 drive implemented a queue depth of 32. This will allow host to issue up to 32 NCQ commands (combined read and write commands). Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Disk errors encountered during Read Multiple commands are posted at the beginning of the block or partial block transfer, but DRQ is still set and the data transfer takes place as it normally would, including transfer of corrupted data, if any. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Verify terminates at the sector where the error occurred. The Command Block registers contain the address of where the error occurred. The Sector Count register contains the number of sectors not yet verified. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
This command transfers 512 bytes of data from the host. Table 6-7 defines the content of this information. If the password does not match the password previously saved by the device, the device shall reject the command with by abortion. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
1= set Master password Bit (7:1) Reserved Bit 8 Security level 0= High 1= Maximum Bit (15:2) Reserved 1-16 Password (32 bytes) Master Password Revision Code (valid if word 0 bit 0 = 1) 18-255 Reserved Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
This command has become obsolete in the ATA7 specification. The supporting of this command is just for backward compatibility purpose. 8.2.29 Set Features (EFh) This command is used by the host to establish the following parameters, which affect the execution of certain drive features as shown below. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Standby Mode. The value in the Sector Count register when the STANDBY command is issued shall determine the time period programmed into the Standby Timer. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Disabling this feature does not preclude the device from saving SMART data to non-volatile memory during some other normal operation such as during a power-on sequence or during an error recovery sequence. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
The device shall then re-initiate its off-line data collection activities in response to the new EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE command. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
X = the content of the byte is vendor specific and may be fixed or variable. R = the content of the byte is reserved and shall be zero. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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These data structures contain information which facilitates the monitoring of key drive indicators in order to determine when the drive has deteriorated to the point at which it may impact the reliability of the host system. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
This type is used to specify an attribute that is collected Self-preserving and saved by the drive automatically. 1= It is a self-preserving attribute type. 6-15 Reserved Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Off-line data collection Activity was aborted by an interrupting command from host 06h or 86h Off-line data collection Activity was aborted by the device with a fatal error. 07h-3Fh Reserved 40h-7Fh Vendor specific Reserved Reserved 87h-BFh Reserved C0h-FFh Vendor specific Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Off-line data collection activity must be restarted by a new SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE command from the host. If the value of this bit equals zero, the Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
4Fh and the Cylinder High register to C2h. If the device detects a threshold-exceeded condition, the device shall set Cylinder Low register to F4h and Cylinder High register to 2Ch 8.2.34.8 SMART write log sector (D6h) This command writes number of 512-byte data sectors to the indicated log sector. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Error information is reported according to the SATA II specification. A read Log Extended command with log page 10 is required to retrieve the error information. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
256 sectors), beginning at the specified sector. Refer to Section 6.7 for the DRQ, IRQ and BSY protocol on data transfers. If the drive is not already on the desired track, an implied seek is performed. Once at the desired track, the drive searches for the appropriate ID field. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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CHS mode or the logical block address in LBA mode. The host may then read the command block to determine what error has occurred and on which sector it occurred. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
Back up your data regularly. Samsung assumes no responsibility for loss of data. For information about back- up and restore procedures, consult your DOS manual. There are also a number of utility programs available that you can use to back up your data. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
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Fig. 9-1: HDD handling guide - Please handle HDD by side surfaces! Fig. 9-2: HDD handling guide - Do not Touch Cover and PCB! Fig. 9-3: HDD handling guide - Do Not Stack! Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...
From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of purchase. The system will display the warranty information for your drive. Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0...