Table 5-95Format Device Page-Field Descriptions (Page 3)

Field

Description

 

 

 

Parameters Savable. This bit is only used with the MODE SENSE command. This

PS

bit is reserved with the MODE SELECT command. A PS bit value of 1 indicates

that the disk drive is capable of saving the page in a non-volatile vendor specific

 

 

location.

 

 

Tracks/Zone

The number of physical tracks per cylinder.

 

 

Alternate

The number of spare locations within a notch.

Sectors/Zone

 

Alternate Tracks/

The drive does not have any alternate tracks.

Zone

 

Alternate Tracks/

The number of tracks reserved for defect handling.

Logical Unit

 

Sectors/Track

The number of Physical Block Address sectors per track. The value depends on the

Notch value selected in the Notch and Partitions page.

 

Data Bytes/

This value is the current disk sector size.

Physical Sector

 

Interleave

The drive does not support interleave.

 

 

Track Skew

The number of physical sectors between the last logical sector on one track and the

Factor

first logical sector on the next track within a cylinder.

Cylinder Skew

The number of physical sectors between the last logical sector on one cylinder and

Factor

the first logical sector on the next cylinder.

SSEC

The drive does not use soft sector formatting.

 

 

HSEC

The drive supports hard sector formatting only.

 

 

RMB

The drive does not support removable logical media.

 

 

SURF

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

all logical blocks within a cylinder prior to allocating addresses on the next cylin-

 

der.

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