Maxtor 52049U4, 51024U2, 51536U3, 53073U6, 54098U8 Product Features, Functional / Interface

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Product Features

Functional / Interface

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 hard drives contain all necessary mechanical and electronic parts to interpret control signals and commands from an AT-compatible host computer. See Section 3 Product Specifications, for complete drive specifications.

Zone Density Recording

The disk capacity is increased with bit density management – common with Zone Density Recording. Each disk surface is divided into 16 circumferential zones. All tracks within a given zone contain a constant number of data sectors. The number of data sectors per track varies in different zones; the outermost zone contains the largest number of data sectors and the innermost contains the fewest.

Read / Write Multiple Mode

This mode is implemented per ANSI ATA/ATAPI-5 specification. Read/Write Multiple allows the host to transfer a set number of sectors without an interrupt request between them, reducing transfer process overhead and improving host performance.

UltraDMA - Mode 4

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 hard drives fully comply with the new ANSI Ultra DMA protocol, which greatly improves overall AT interface performance by significantly improving burst and sustained data throughput.

Multi-word DMA (EISA Type B) - Mode 2

Supports multi-word Direct Memory Access (DMA) EISA Type B mode transfers.

Sector Address Translation

All DiamondMax Plus 40 drives feature a universal translate mode. In an AT/EISA-class system, the drive may be configured to any specified combination of cylinders, heads and sectors (within the range of the drive's formatted capacity). DiamondMax Plus 40 drives power-up in a translate mode:

MODEL	CYL	HD	SPT	LZone	WPcom	MAX LBA	CAPACITY
54098U8	79,406	16	63	(*)	(*)	80,041,248	40,980	MB
53073U6	59,554	16	63	(*)	(*)	60,030,432	30,735	MB
52049U4	39,703	16	63	(*)	(*)	40,020,624	20,490 MB
51536U3	29,777	16	63	(*)	(*)	30,015,216	15,367 MB
51024U2	19,852	16	63	(*)	(*)	20,010,816	10,245	MB

(*)The fields LZone (Landing Zone) and WPcom (Write Pre-comp) are not used by the Maxtor hard drive and the values may be either 0 or the values set by the BIOS. All capacities listed in the above table are based on 106 or one million bytes.

Logical Block Addressing

The Logical Block Address (LBA) mode can only be utilized in systems that support this form of translation. The cylinder, head and sector geometry of the drive, as presented to the host, differs from the actual physical geometry. The host AT computer may access a drive of set parameters: number of cylinders, heads and sectors per track, plus cylinder, head and sector addresses. However, the drive can’t use these host parameters directly because of zoned recording techniques. The drive translates the host parameters to a set of logical internal addresses for data access.

The host drive geometry parameters are mapped into an LBA based on this formula:

LBA	= (HSCA - 1)	+ HHDA x HSPT + HNHD x HSPT x HCYA	(1)
	= (HSCA - 1)	+ HSPT x (HHDA + HNHD x HCYA)	(2)
where	HSCA = Host Sector Address, HHDA = Host Head Address
	HCYA = Host Cylinder Address, HNHD = Host Number of Heads
	HSPT = Host Sectors per Track

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