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5-68 Maxtor Atlas 10K V
Table 5-95 Format Device Page-Field Descriptions (Page 3)
Field Description
PS
Parameters Savable. This bit is only used with the MODE SENSE command. This
bit is reserved with the MODE SELECT command. A PS bit value of 1 indicates
that the disk drive is capable of saving the page in a non-volatile vendor specific
location.
Tracks/Zone The number of physical tracks per cylinder.
Alternate
Sectors/Zone
The number of spare locations within a notch.
Alternate Tracks/
Zone
The drive does not have any alternate tracks.
Alternate Tracks/
Logical Unit
The number of tracks reserved for defect handling.
Sectors/Track
The number of Physical Block Address sectors per track. The value depends on the
Notch value selected in the Notch and Partitions page.
Data Bytes/
Physical Sector
This value is the current disk sector size.
Interleave The drive does not support interleave.
Track Skew
Factor
The number of physical sectors between the last logical sector on one track and the
first logical sector on the next track within a cylinder.
Cylinder Skew
Factor
The number of physical sectors between the last logical sector on one cylinder and
the first logical sector on the next cylinder.
SSEC The drive does not use soft sector formatting.
HSEC The drive supports hard sector formatting only.
RMB The drive does not support removable logical media.
SURF
A Surface bit value of 0 indicates that the drive allocates progressive addresses to
all logical blocks within a cylinder prior to allocating addresses on the next cylin-
der.