Fujitsu MAV2073RC, MAV2036RC manual Data Format

Data Format

Physics Cylinder -Z

System space

-4

Cylinder0

Head0

1

m-1

Cylinder0

Head1

m-1

		Cylinder0
				1
	Head
Zone0	(a-1)
			m-1

Spare sectors for each cell

User space

Track

		m-1
				Spare sectors for each cell
Change		1
for cell
	(b-1)		Alternate Cell
(b)
		m-1

Zone1

Zone (X-1)

(C) Spare Cylinder

Last Cylinder

Note: Spare sectors on the last track in each cylinder are not necessarily placed at the end of the track (b-1)

because of a track skew or a cylinder skew. (Details are explained in Subsection 3.1.3.)

Figure 3.1 Cylinder configuration

Apart from the above logical configuration, the HDD intends to increase the storage capacity by dividing all cylinders into several zones and changing a recording density of each zone.

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