Maxtor 300 Computer Drive User Manual


 
General Description
2-2 Quickview 300 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB PATA
•Emulation of IBM
®
PC AT
®
task file register, and all AT fixed disk
commands
Performance
Average seek time of <9.0 ms (increased in Quiet Mode)
Average rotational latency of 4.17 ms
New Ultra ATA interface with Maxtor-patented Ultra ATA/133
protocol supporting burst data transfer rates of 133MB/s
8MB and 16MB Cache buffer
Look-ahead DiskCache feature with continuous prefetch and
WriteCache write-buffering capabilities
AutoTask Register update, Multi-block AutoRead, and Multi-block
AutoWrite features in a custom ASIC
Read-on-arrival firmware
Quadruple-burst ECC, and double burst ECC on-the-fly
1:1 interleave on read/write operations
Support of all standard PATA data transfer modes with PIO mode
4 and multiword DMA mode 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 and 6
Adaptive cache segmentation
FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing Motors)
Reliability
Automatic retry on read errors
320-bit, non-interleaved Reed-Solomon Error Correcting Code
(ECC), with cross checking correction up to fifteen separate bursts
of 10 bits each totalling up to 150 bits in length
S.M.A.R.T. 4 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
Transparent media defect mapping
High performance, in-line defective sector skipping
Reassignment of defective sectors discovered in the field, without
reformatting
Shock Protection System to reduce handling induced failures
Data Protection System to verify drive integrity
Quiet Drive Technology (QDT)
Demonstrated at high temperatures