Maxtor 10K III Computer Drive User Manual


 
General Description
2-2 Maxtor Atlas 10K III
Performance
Average seek time of 4.5 ms for reads and 5.0 ms for writes
10,000 RPM rotational speed
Average rotational latency of 3 ms
8 MB SDRAM buffer. Look-ahead DisCache feature with continuous
prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities
Read-on-arrival firmware
Tagged Command Queuing with Reordering (ORCA)
ECC on-the-fly
Highly automated SCSI protocol (including Auto Read/Write)
1:1 interleave on read/write operations
High performance Ultra160 SCSI or Ultra320 SCSI interface
SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 supported
Ultra-2 SCSI-3 LVDS transfer rates supported
Fast Ultra and Ultra-2 SCSI transfer rates supported (SCSI-3 compliant)
S.M.A.R.T. 2 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
SCSI bus active negation drivers
SCAM Level 2
Data transfer rate of up to 6.0 MB/s asynchronous, 40 MB/s Ultra SCSI,
80 MB/s Ultra2 SCSI, 160 MB/s Ultra160 SCSI, and 320 MB/s
Ultra320 SCSI.
SCSI bus fairness
Ultra 320 Performance Enhancements
~ Adaptive Active Filter (AAF)
~ Transmitter Pre-Compensation with Cutback
~ Double Transition (DT) Data Transfers
~ Free Running Clock (FRC)
~ Skew Compensation
~ Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
~ Domain Validation
~ Information Unit (IU) Transfers