Seagate ST32122A - Medalist 2.1 GB Hard Drive, Product Manual

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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
ST34342A, ST33232A, ST32122A, ST31722A and the ST31012A.
1.1 Formatted capacity
Drive
Model
Guaranteed Mbytes
(1 Mbyte = 10
6
bytes)
Guaranteed
sectors ( n)
Bytes per
sector
ST34342A 4,303 8,404,830 512
ST33232A 3,227 6,303,024 512
ST32122A 2,111 4,124,736 512
ST31722A 1,704 3,329,424 512
ST31012A 1,082 2,114,784 512
Note. DOS systems cannot access more than 528 Mbytes on a drive un-
less 1) the host system supports and is configured for LBA address-
ing or for extended CHS addressing, 2) the host system contains a
specialized drive controller, or 3) the host system runs BIOS trans-
lation software. Contact your Seagate
®
representative for details.
1.1.1 Default logical geometry
CHS Mode Cylinders Read/Write heads Sectors per track
ST34342A 8,894 15 63
ST33232A 6,253 16 63
ST32122A 4,092 16 63
ST31722A 3,303 16 63
ST31012A 2,098 16 63
LBA Mode
When addressing your 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 in the table above.
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