Seagate Medalist 10230, Product Manual

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Medalist 13640, 10230, 6422 and 3210 Product Manual, Rev. B 5
1.0 Drive specifications
Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient
conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases
the drive
and
this drive
are used throughout this manual to indicate the
ST313640A, ST310230A, ST36422A and the ST33210A.
1.1 Formatted capacity
Note. DOS systems cannot access more than 528 Mbytes on a drive
unless 1) the host system supports and is configured for LBA
addressing or for extended CHS addressing, 2) the host system
contains a specialized drive controller, or 3) the host system runs
BIOS translation software. Contact your Seagate
®
representative
for details.
1.1.1 Default logical geometry
LBA Mode
When addressing either drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are
consecutively numbered from 0 to
n–1,
where
n
is the number of
guaranteed sectors as defined above .
Drive
Model Guaranteed Mbytes
(1 Mbyte = 10
6
bytes)
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per
sector
ST313640A 13,600 26,562,500 512
ST310230A 10,242 20,005,650 512
ST36422A 6,400 12,500,460 512
ST33210A 3,249 6,346,368 512
CHS Mode Cylinders Read/Write heads Sectors per track
ST313640A 16,383 16 63
ST310230A 16,383 16 63
ST36422A 13,228 15 63
ST33210A 6,296 16 63