Maxtor 10K III Format Device Page-Field Descriptions (Page 3)

SCS I Description

Format Device Page-Field Descriptions (Page 3)

PS 0

Param eters Savabl e. Thi s bit i s only used wi th the MODE SENSE com-

mand. This bit is res erved with the MODE SELECT command. A PS bit

value o f 1 indi cat es that the disk dri ve is ca pable of s aving th e page i n

a non-volatile vendor specific location.

Tracks/Zone The number of physical tracks per cylinder:

for 18 G B , for 36 G B , for 73 GB

Alternate

Sectors/Zone The number of spare locations within a notch:

for 18 GB, for 36 G B, fo r 7 3 G B

Alternate Tracks/

Zone 0 The drive does not have any alternate tracks.

Alternate Tracks/

Logical Unit The number of tracks reserved for defect handling:

for 18 GB, for 36 GB, for 73 GB

Sectors/Track 579 The num ber of Ph ysical Block Addr ess sector s per tr ack . The val ue de-

pends on the Notch value selected in the Not ch and Partitions page.

Data Byte s/

Physical Sector 512 This value is the current disk sector size.

Interleave 1 The drive does not support interleave.

Track Skew

Factor

The number of physic al sect ors bet ween the last logica l sect or on one

track and the first logical sector on the next track within a cylinder:

25 for 18 GB, 25 for 36 GB, 25 for 73 GB

Cylinder Skew

Factor

The number of physic al sect ors bet ween the last logica l sect or on one

cylinder and the first logical sect or on the next cylinder:

23 for 18 GB, 23 for 36 GB, 23 for 73 GB

SSEC 0 The drive does not use soft sector form atting.

HSEC 1 The drive supports hard sector format ting only.

RMB 0 The drive does not support removable logical media.

SURF 0 A Surface bit value of 0 indicates that the drive allocates progressive

addresses to all logical blocks within a c ylinder prior to al locating ad-

dresses on the next cylinder.