Fujitsu MBA3073FD, Product Manual

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1.1 Standard Features
(11) Enclosure service function
The HDDs support the enclosure service interface (ESI), which complies with SFF-8067. The ESI
interface enables use of the SCSI-3 enclosure service command set (SES) so that the functions that
specify and read enclosure service information can be used.
(12) Error
recovery
The HDDs can try to recover from errors in the HDD using its powerful retry processing. If a
recoverable data check occurs, error-free data can be transferred to the initiator after being corrected
in the data buffer. The initiator software is released from the complicated error recover processing
by these error recovery functions of the HDDs.
(13)
Automatic alternate block reassignment
If a defective data block is detected during read or write the HDDs can automatically reassign its
alternate data block.
(14)
Programmable data block length
Data can be accessed in fixed-block length units. The data block length is programmable, and can be
specified at initializing with a multiple of four within the range of 512 to 528 bytes.
Error rate increase
1. The HDD format at factory shipment is generally 512 bytes.
2. The recoverable Error might increase when the format would be modified
from 512 bytes to the following values:
516 bytes, 520 bytes, 524 bytes, 528 bytes.
3. The recoverable Error referred here is sense data (1-13-xx).
(15)
Defective block slipping
A logical data block can be reallocated in a physical sequence by slipping the defective data block at
formatting. This results in high speed contiguous data block processing without a revolution delay
due to defective data block.
(16)
High speed positioning
A rotary voice coil motor achieves fast positioning with high performance access control.
(17) Large
capacity
A large capacity can be obtained from the HDDs by dividing all cylinders into several partitions and
changing the recording density on each partition (constant density recording). The disk subsystem
with large capacity can be constructed in the good space efficiency.
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