Seagate 810 manual Introduction

Marathon 810 (ST9816AG) Product Manual, August 1995 1

Introduction

The Marathon™ 810 (ST9816AG) provides high storage capacity in a small, low-profile hard disc drive.

Key features:

∙SafeRite™ shock protection

∙Low power consumption

∙Compact, MCC-compatible form-factor

∙Quiet operation

∙Advanced partial-response, maximum-likelihood (PRML) read channel

∙Supports logical block addressing

∙Supports PIO modes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, and DMA modes 0, 1 and 2.

∙High instantaneous data-transfer rates (up to 16.6 Mbytes per second using PIO mode 4 and DMA mode 2).

∙Fast microprocessor for lower command overhead

∙120-Kbyte multisegmented adaptive cache

∙Advanced caching and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms

∙Supports Read Multiple and Write Multiple commands

∙Supports autodetection of master/slave drives using cable select and DASP– signals.