Seagate ST35040A, Product Manual

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The ATA commands with specific applications for these drives and the
Seagate-unique commands the drives use are discussed in Section 3.0
on page 25. A complete list of the commands the drives support are found
in the table on page 27.
The following is a summary of the drives’ features:
Capacity
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6.4 and 5.0 Gbytes formatted
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LBA translation support
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Available software driver that surpasses the 528-Mbyte barrier and
4,096 cylinder barrier limited by some system BIOSs
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Available software driver that provides expanded 32-bit disk access
support for Windows 3.
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Performance
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Fast ATA-2 (Supports multiword DMA mode 2 and PIO mode 4 for up
to 16.6-Mbyte-per-second burst transfer rates. Supports multiple
block read/write.)
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512-Kbyte segmented buffer
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12-msec average read seek time
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13.5-msec average write seek time
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Data streaming
Energy efficiency
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Active, Idle and Standby power-management modes
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2 watt typical power dissipation rating in Standby mode
2 Medalist Pro 6450/5040 Product Manual, February 1997