Fujitsu MHW2040AT - Mobile 40 GB Hard Drive, Product Manual

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Device Overview
1.8 Error Rate
Known defects, for which alternative blocks can be assigned, are not included in
the error rate count below. It is assumed that the data blocks to be accessed are
evenly distributed on the disk media.
(1) Unrecoverable read error
Read errors that cannot be recovered by maximum read retries of drive without
user’s retry and ECC corrections shall occur no more than 1 time when reading
data of 10
14
bits. Read retries are executed according to the disk drive’s error
recovery procedure, and include read retries accompanying head offset operations.
(2) Positioning error
Positioning (seek) errors that can be recovered by one retry shall occur no more
than 10 times in 10
7
seek operations.
1.9 Media Defects
Defective sectors are replaced with alternates when the disk drive is formatted
prior to shipment from the factory (low level format). Thus, the hosts see a defect-
free device.
Alternate sectors are automatically accessed by the disk drive. The user need not
be concerned with access to alternate sectors.
1.10 Load/Unload Function
The Load/Unload function is a mechanism that loads the head on the disk and
unloads the head from the disk.
The product supports a minimum of 600,000 Load/Unload cycles.
Unload is a normal head unloading operation and is executed by the operations
below:
•
Hard Reset
•
STANDBY command issued
•
STANDBY IMMEDIATE command issued
•
SLEEP command issued
•
IDLE IMMEDIATE command (with unload feature) issued
•
Power Mode shifted with APM/APS feature
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