Seagate Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA ST91603110CS, Product Manual

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Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 5
2.2 Formatted capacity
Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector
ST9500323CS 500 Gbytes 976,773,168
512
ST9320328CS 320 Gbytes 625,142,448
ST9250311CS 250 Gbytes 488,397,168
ST91603110CS 160 Gbytes 312,581,808
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
2.2.1 LBA mode
When addressing these drives 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 .
See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit
addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.
2.3 Default logical geometry
Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track
16,383 16 63
LBA mode
When addressing these drives 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 .