Preface

Conventions

An MHZ series device is sometimes simply referred to as a "hard disk drive," "HDD," "drive," or "device" in this document.

Decimal numbers are represented normally.

Hexadecimal numbers are represented as shown in the following examples: X'17B9', 17B9h, 17B9H, or 17B9H.

Binary numbers are represented as shown in the following examples: 010 or 010b.

Serial-ATA may be referred to as "SATA".

Representation of the data storage capacity

One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes; accessible capacity will be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting.

Attention

Please forward any comments you may have regarding this manual.

To make this manual easier for users to understand, opinions from readers are needed. Please write your opinions or requests on the Comment at the back of this manual and forward it to the address described in the sheet.

Liability Exception

"Disk drive defects" refers to defects that involve adjustment, repair, or replacement.

Fujitsu is not liable for any other disk drive defects, such as those caused by user misoperation or mishandling, inappropriate operating environments, defects in the power supply or cable, problems of the host system, or other causes outside the disk drive.

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