9.4.7Power

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 sup- ply 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.

9.5Signal characteristics

This section describes the electrical signal characteristics of the drive’s input and output signals. See Table 13 for signal type and signal name information.

9.5.1Ready LED Out

The Ready LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 14.

Table 14: 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

 

 

 

 

The Ready LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +3.3 volt supply through an appropriate current limiting resistor. The LED and the current limiting resis- tor are external to the drive. See Table 15 for the output characteristics of the LED drive signals.

Table 15:

LED drive signal

 

 

 

 

 

State

 

Test condition

Output voltage

 

 

 

 

LED off, high

 

0 V VOH 3.6 V

-100 µA < IOH < 100 µA

 

 

 

 

LED on, low

 

IOL = 15 mA

0 VOL 0.225 V

 

 

 

 

9.5.2Differential signals

The drive SAS differential signals comply with the intra-enclosure (internal connector) requirements of the SAS standard.

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