U10 Family Product Manual, Rev. A

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1.0 Drive specifications

Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the ST320423A, ST315323A and the ST310212A.

1.1 Formatted capacity

Drive Model

Guaranteed Mbytes

Guaranteed

Bytes per

 

(1 Mbyte = 106 bytes)

sectors

sector

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ST320423A

20,485

40,011,300

512

 

 

 

 

ST315323A

15,364

30,008,475

512

 

 

 

 

ST310212A

10,242

20,005,650

512

 

 

 

 

1.1.1 Default logical geometry

CHS Mode

Cylinders

Read/Write heads

Sectors per track

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ST320423A

16,383

16

63

 

 

 

 

ST315323A

16,383

16

63

 

 

 

 

ST310212A

16,383

16

63

 

 

 

 

LBA Mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

1.2 Physical organization

Drive Model

Read/Write heads (GMR)

Number of discs

 

 

 

 

 

 

ST320423A

4

2

 

 

 

ST315323A

3

2

 

 

 

ST310212A

2

1