General Description

•Emulation of IBM® PC AT® task file register, and all AT fixed disk commands

Performance

•Average seek time of <9.0 ms (increased in Quiet Mode)

•Average rotational latency of 4.17 ms

•New Ultra ATA interface with Maxtor-patented Ultra ATA/133 protocol supporting burst data transfer rates of 133MB/s

•8MB and 16MB Cache buffer

•Look-ahead DiskCache feature with continuous prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities

•AutoTask Register update, Multi-block AutoRead, and Multi-block AutoWrite features in a custom ASIC

•Read-on-arrival firmware

•Quadruple-burst ECC, and double burst ECC on-the-fly

•1:1 interleave on read/write operations

•Support of all standard PATA data transfer modes with PIO mode 4 and multiword DMA mode 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

•Adaptive cache segmentation

•FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing Motors)

Reliability

•Automatic retry on read errors

•320-bit, non-interleaved Reed-Solomon Error Correcting Code (ECC), with cross checking correction up to fifteen separate bursts of 10 bits each totalling up to 150 bits in length

•S.M.A.R.T. 4 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

•Transparent media defect mapping

•High performance, in-line defective sector skipping

•Reassignment of defective sectors discovered in the field, without reformatting

•Shock Protection System to reduce handling induced failures

•Data Protection System to verify drive integrity

•Quiet Drive Technology (QDT)

•Demonstrated at high temperatures

2-2 Quickview 300 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB PATA