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- Page 1 Cactus Technologies, Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual October 30, 2012 Corporate Headquarters Suite C, 15/F, Capital Trade Center 62 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun Tong Kowloon, Hong Kong...
- Page 2 Users of Cactus Technologies ® products for such unintended and unauthorized applications shall assume all risk of such use and shall indemnify and hold Cactus Technologies ® and its officers, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates and distributors harmless against all claims, costs, damages,...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Cactus Technologies, Limited Table of Contents 1.Introduction to Cactus Technologies® Industrial Grade CFast Products ...............4 1.1.Supported Standards..........................5 1.2.Product Features............................ 5 1.2.1.Host and Technology Independence..................... 5 1.2.2.Defect and Error Management..................... 5 1.2.3.Power Supply Requirements......................6 2.Product Specifications............................6 2.1.System Environmental Specifications....................6 2.2.System Power Requirements......................... -
Page 4: Introduction To Cactus Technologies Industrial Grade Cfast Products
• Voltage support: 3.3V±10% The Cactus Technologies ® CFast card is a high capacity solid-state flash memory product that complies with the Serial ATA 2.6 standard and is functionally compatible with a SATA hard disk drive. Cactus Technologies ® CFast cards provide up to 32GB of formatted storage capacity. -
Page 5: Supported Standards
Cactus Technologies ® Industrial CFast card appears as a standard SATA disk drive to the host system. The drive utilizes a 512-byte sector which is the same as that in an IDE magnetic disk drive. To write or read a sector (or multiple sectors), the host computer software simply issues an ATA Read or Write command to the drive as per the SATA protocol. -
Page 6: Power Supply Requirements
1.2.3. Power Supply Requirements Cactus Technologies ® Industrial CFast card operates at a voltage range of 3.3 volts ± 10%. 2.Product Specifications For all the following specifications, values are defined at ambient temperature and nominal supply voltage unless otherwise stated. -
Page 7: System Performance
< 1 non-recoverable error in 10 bits READ Endurance: > 2,000,000 erase/program cycles 2.5. Physical Specifications The following sections provide the physical specifications for Cactus Technologies ® Industrial CFast products. Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 8: Cfast Card Physical Specifications
Cactus Technologies, Limited 2.5.1. CFast Card Physical Specifications Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... - Page 9 Cactus Technologies, Limited Figure 2-1. Type I CFast Card Dimensions Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1...
- Page 10 Cactus Technologies, Limited Figure 2-2. Type I CFast Card with Write Protect switch Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1...
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Page 11: Nterface Description
Cactus Technologies, Limited 3.nterface Description The following sections provide detailed information on the Cactus Technologies ® Industrial CFast card interface. 3.1. CFast Pin Assignments and Pin Type Cactus Technologies ® CFast signal pinout conforms to CFA specifications. The signal/pin assignments and descriptions are listed in Table 3-5. -
Page 12: Optional Write Protect Function
3.1.1. Optional Write Protect Function For CFast cards with the optional Write Protect switch option, the Write Protect function can be activated either by using the Write Protect switch or by pulling pin PC10 low. The current Write Protect status of the card is indicated by pin PC8 as described below:... -
Page 13: Ac Characteristics
4.ATA Drive Register Set Definition and Protocol The communication to or from the CFast card is done using FIS. Legacy ATA protocol is supported by using the legacy mode defined in the SATA specifications. In this mode, the FIS has defined fields which provide all the necessary ATA task file registers for control and status information. -
Page 14: Feature Register
When LBA=0, Cylinder/Head/Sector mode is selected. When LBA=1, Logical Block Address is selected. In Logical Block Mode, the Logical Block Address is interpreted as follows: LBA07-LBA00: Sector Number Register D7-D0. LBA15-LBA08: Cylinder Low Register D7-D0. Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 15: Status Registers
Sector Count,Drive/Head and LBA registers. When set, the host will read the previous written values of these registers. A write to any Command block register will clear this bit. Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 16: Drive Address Register
Bit 1 (-nDS1) This bit is 0 when drive 1 is active and selected. Bit 0 (-nDS0) This bit is 0 when the drive 0 is active and selected. 5.ATA Command Description This section defines the ATA command set supported by the Cactus Technologies ® CFast card. -
Page 17: Ata Command Set
Set Features Set Multiple Mode Set Sleep Mode SMART Stand By Stand By Immediate Write DMA CAh or Write DMA Ext Write DMA FUA Ext Write FPDMA Queued Write Multiple Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 18: Identify Drive-Ech
PIO data transfer cycle timing mode 0000H Single Word DMA data transfer cycle timing mode (not supported). 0007H Data fields 54-58,64-70 and 88 are valid. XXXX Current numbers of cylinders. Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... - Page 19 Master password revision code XXXXH COMRESET result 80FEH Acoustic management values 95-99 0000H Reserved 100-103 XXXXH Maximum user LBA for 48-bit addressing mode. 104-127 0000H Reserved XXXXH Security status 129-255 Reserved Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1...
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Page 20: Appendix A. Ordering Information
-WP ----------------- with Write Protect switch Example: (1) 8GB CFast ---------------------------------------------------------- KC8GF-602S (2) 8GB CFast Extended Temp ----------------------------------- KC8GFI-602S (3) 32GB CFast -------------------------------------------------------- KC32GFT-602S (4) 8GB CFast with Write Protect --------------------------------- KC8GF-602S-WP Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 21: Appendix B.technical Support Services
B.1.Direct Cactus Technologies ® Technical Support Cactus Technologies Limited Suite C, 15/F, Capital Trade Center 62 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun Tong Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: +852-27972261 Fax: +852-27973777 Email: tech@cactus-tech.com Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 22: Appendix C.cactus Technologies® Worldwide Sales Offices
Appendix C.Cactus Technologies Worldwide Sales Offices Cactus Technologies Limited Suite C, 15/F, Capital Trade Center 62 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun Tong Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: +852-27972277 Fax: +852-27973777 Email: sales@cactus-tech.com Cactus Technologies Limited Industrial Grade CFast Card Product Manual v1.1... -
Page 23: Appendix D.limited Warranty
Industrial Grade products only to be free of any defects in materials or workmanship that would prevent them from functioning properly for five years from the date of purchase. This express warranty is extended by Cactus Technologies ®... - Page 24 ® Customer Service department (tech@cactus-tech.com) with the following information: product model number and description, nature of defect, conditions of use, proof of purchase and purchase date. If approved, Cactus Technologies ® will issue a Return Material Authorization or Product Repair Authorization number. Ship the defective...