Hitachi Ultrastar 15K450 (FC-AL) Hard Disk Drive Specification
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The format device page contains parameters that specify the medium format. This page contains no changeable parameters.
•Tracks per Zone specifies the number of tracks within the zone. This field is a function of the active notch.
•Sectors per Track specifies the number of physical sectors within each track. This field is a function of the active notch.
•Data Bytes per Physical Sector specifies the number of user data bytes per physical sector. The value depends upon the
current formatted Block Length.
•Interleave value of 1 or 0 is valid. However, the drive will ignore this.
•Track Skew Factor indicates the number of physical sectors between the last block of one track and the first block on
the next sequential track of the same cylinder. This field is a function of the active notch.
•Cylinder Skew Factor indicates the number of physical sectors between the last block of one cylinder and the first block
on the next sequential cylinder. This field is a function of the active notch.
•SSEC = Zero indicates that the drive does not support soft sector formatting.
•HSEC = One indicates that the drive supports hard sector formatting.
•RMB = Zero indicates that the media does not support removable Fixed Disk.
•SURF = Zero indicates that progressive addresses are assigned to all logical blocks in a cylinder prior to allocating
addresses within the next cylinder.