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    DiamondMax 17 80-160GB ATA May 29, 2006 PN: 1938[...]

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    Revisions PN: 1938 © May 29, 2006 Maxtor Corporation. All rights r eserved. Printed in U.S.A. This publication could include t echnical inaccuracies or typogr aphical error s. Changes are periodic ally made to the information her ein – which will be incorporat ed in revised editions of the public ation. Maxtor may make changes or impr ovements i[...]

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    Befor e Y ou Begin Thank you f or your inter est in Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB A T hard disk driv es. This manual pro vides technical information f or OEM engineers and systems int egrators r egar ding the installation and use of Maxtor A T A hard drives. Please do not r emove or cov er up Maxtor factory-ins talled driv e labels. They contain in[...]

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    Table Of Contents i Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 AUDIENCE ......................................................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 MANUAL ORGANIZATION ...............................................................................[...]

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    Table Of Contents Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ii Chapter 4 PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS 4.1 Model Number and Capacity ............................................................................................................ 4-1 4.2 Drive Configuration ................................................................................[...]

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    List of Figures iii Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Figure 3-1 Mechanical Dimensions ......................................................................................................... 3-1 Figure 3-2 20-Pack Shipping Container .................................................................................................. 3[...]

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    viii Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive List of Tables Table 3-1 AT Jumper Options .................................................................................................... ........ 3-5 Table 3-2 LBA Addressing ................................................................................................................ 3[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Drive 1-1 Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter gives an overview of the contents of this manual, including the intended audience, how the manual is organized, terminology, conventions, and references. 1.1 AUDIENCE The DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive product manual is intended for several audiences. The[...]

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    1-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Drive Introduction 1.3 TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS In the Glossary at the back of this manual, you can find definitions for many of the terms used in this manual. In addition, the following abbreviations are used: –A SIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit – ATA Advanced Technology Attachment –B e[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Drive 1-3 Introduction The typographical and naming conventions used in this manual are listed below. Conventions that are unique to a specific table appear in the notes that follow that table. Typographical Conventions – Names of Bits: Bit names are presented in initial capitals. An example is the Host Softw[...]

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    1-4 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Drive Introduction[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 2-1 Chapter 2 General Description This chapter summarizes the general functions and key features of the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive, as well as the applicable standards and regulations. 2.1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW Maxtor’s DiamondMax17 AT hard disk drives are part of a family of high perform[...]

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    2-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive General Description 2.1 KEY FEATURES The DiamondMax 17 AT hard disk drive includes the following key features: General – Low profile, 1-inch height –E mulation of IBM ® PC AT ® task file register, and all AT fixed disk commands –W indows NT2000, XP, Server, and Media Center Edition certif[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 2-3 General Description Reliability – 550k hours mean time expected until failure (MTTF) –A utomatic 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[...]

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    2-4 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive General Description 2.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS The DiamondMax 17 AT hard disk drive is compatible with the IBM PC AT, and other computers that are compatible with the IBM PC AT. It connects to the PC either by means of a third-party ATA adapter board, or by plugging a cable from the drive directly[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-1 Chapter 3 Installation This chapter explains how to unpack, configure, mount, and connect the Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive prior to operation. It also explains how to start up, format, and operate the drive. 3.1 SPACE REQUIREMENTS Figure 3-1 shows the external dimensions of th[...]

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    Installation 3-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3.2 UNPACKING INSTRUCTIONS 1. Grounded wrist straps should be worn when opening the ESD bag. 2. Three layer runners should be installed on every table and bench where the product is processed while still vulnerable to ESD. 3. Open the shipping container and remove the packing assembl[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-3 Figure 3-2 shows the shipping container for a 20 pack of DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drives. Figure 3-2 20 Pack Shipping Container[...]

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    Installation 3-4 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3.3 HARDWARE OPTIONS 3.3.1 ATA Interface Connector Figure 3-3 Jumper Locations on the ATA Interface Connector The configuration of a DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive depends on the host system in which it is to be installed. This section describes the hardware options that y[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-5 The configuration of the following three jumpers controls the drive’s five modes of operation: –C S – Cable Select –D S – Drive Select –C LJ– Cylinder Limitation Jumper The AT PCB has two jumper locations provided to configure the drive in a system. The default configur[...]

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    Installation 3-6 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3.3.1.1 Cable Select (CS) Jumper When a DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive and another ATA hard disk drive are daisy-chained together, they can be configured as Master or Slave either by the CS or DS jumpers. To configure the drive as a Master or Slave with the CS feature, the[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-7 3.3.1.4 Cylinder Limitation Jumper (CLJ) For user capacities below 66,055,248 sectors (32GB), inserting the CLJ jumper limits the Number of Cylinders field 1 to a value of 16,383, as reported in IDENTIFY DEVICE data word. This allows software drivers to determine that the actual capa[...]

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    Installation 3-8 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3.3.2.1 40-Pin ATA Bus Connector Most PC motherboards have a built-in 40-pin ATA bus connector that is compatible with the 40-pin ATA interface of the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drives. If the motherboard has an ATA connector, simply connect a 40-pin ribbon cable between the[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-9 3.4 ATA BUS INTERFACE CONNECTOR (J1, SECTION C) J1 is a three-in-one combination connector. The drive’s DC power can be applied to section A. The ATA bus interface (40-pin) uses section C. The connector is mounted on the back edge of the printed-circuit board (PCB), as shown in Fig[...]

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    Installation 3-10 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3.4.2 External Drive Activity LED An external drive activity LED may be connected to the DASP-I/O pin 39 on J1. For more details, see the pin description in Table 5-1. 3.4.3 ATA Bus Interface Connector (J1, Section C) On the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drives, the ATA bus in[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-11 3.5 MOUNTING 3.5.1 Orientation The mounting holes on the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drives allow the drive to be mounted in any orientation. Figure 3-4 and Figure 3-6 show the location of the three mounting holes on each side of the drive. The drive can also be mounted usin[...]

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    Installation 3-12 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Figure 3-7 Mounting Screw Clearance CAUTION: The PCB is very close to the mounting holes. Do not ex- ceed the specified length for the mounting screws. T he specified screw length allows full use of the mounting hole threads, while avoiding damaging or placing unwanted stress on the[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-13 3.5.2 Clearance Clearance from the drive to any other surface (except mounting surfaces) must be a minimum of 1.25 mm (0.05 inches). 3.5.3 Ventilation The DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drives operate without a cooling fan, provided the base casting temperature as measured wher[...]

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    Installation 3-14 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Figure 3-9 Crosswise Airflow Cooling 3.6 FOR SYSTEMS WITH AN ATA ADAPTER BOARD To install the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive in an AT-compatible system without a 40-pin ATA bus connector on its motherboard, you need a third- party IDE-compatible adapter board. 3.6.1 Adapt[...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-15 3.6.1.1 Connecting the Adapter Board and the Drive Use a 40-pin cable to connect the drive to the board. See figure 3-10. To connect the drive to the board: 1. Insert the 40-pin cable connector into the mating connector of the adapter board. Make sure that pin 1 of the connector mat[...]

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    Installation 3-16 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3.7 TECHNIQUES IN DRIVE CONFIGURATION 3.7.1 The 8.4-Gigabytes Barrier Newer BIOS’s allow users to configure disk drives to go beyond the 528MB barrier by using several BIOS translation schemes. However, while using these translations the BIOS using Int 13 functions are limited to [...]

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    Installation Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 3-17 3.8 SYSTEM STARTUP AND OPERATION Once you have installed the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive, and adapter board (if required) in the host system, you are ready to partition and format the drive for operation. To set up the drive correctly, follow these steps: 1. Power on t[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 4-1 Chapter 4 Product Specifications 4.1 MODEL NUMBER AND CAPACITY 4.2 DRIVE CONFIGURATION Model 6G080L0 6G160P0 F ormatted Capacity (GB LBA Mode) 80GB 160GB GB means 1 billion bytes. T otal acc essibl e capacity varies depending on operating envir onment. Model 6G080L0 6G160P0 Sectors per Driv e (ma[...]

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    4-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Product Specifications 4.3 PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS 4.4 PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS Model 6G080L0 6G160P0 Seek Times (typical r ead, ms) Tr ack-to-T rack 2.5 T ypical Seek < 12 < 8.9 F ull Strok e (normal seek) 23 Av erage Latency (ms) 4.18 Contr oller Overhead (ms) < 0.3 Rotation Speed (RPM ?[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 4-3 Product Specifications 4.5 POWER REQUIREMENTS – 80GB & 160GB 4.5.1 Voltage Tolerance Mode Pow er (W atts) Curr ent 12V (mA) Curr ent 5V (mA) Start-up (peak) ov er 1 ms 23 1580 775 Seek (peak) over 1 ms* 19.5 1400 530 Sequential Write (aver age) 7.5 255 850 Sequential Read (average) 7 255 79[...]

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    4-4 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Product Specifications 4.6 POWER MODE DEFINITIONS Start-up The drive is spinning up following initial application of power and has not yet reached full speed. Seek A random access operation by the drive. Read/Write Data is being read from or written to the drive. Idle The drive is spinning, the a[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 4-5 Product Specifications 4.8 ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS Notes: 1. Margin demonstrated implies the product will operate at the stated conditions with an acceptable impact to the ARR specification for any OEM requiring those values in their purchase specification. 2. The testing performed by Maxtor is cons[...]

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    4-6 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Product Specifications 4.9 SHOCK AND VIBRATION 4.10 RELIABILITY SPECIFICATIONS Annualized Return Rate < 1% Annualized Return Rate (ARR) indicates the average against products shipped. ARR includes all reasons for returns (failures, handling, damage, NDF) but does not include inventory credit r[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 4-7 Product Specifications 4.11 EMC/EMI 4.11.1 Radiated Electromagnetic Field Emissions - EMC Compliance The hard disk drive mechanism is designed as a subassembly for installation into a suitable enclosure and is therefore not subject to Subpart J of Part 15 of FCC Rules (47CFR15) or the Canadian De[...]

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    4-8 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive Product Specifications[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-1 Chapter 5 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands This chapter describes the interface between the DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive and the ATA bus. The commands that are issued from the host to control the drive are listed, as well as the electrical and mechanical characteristics of the inte[...]

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    5-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 5.4 REGISTER ADDRESS DECODING The Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive allow their host systems to address the full set of command and control registers as specified in clause 5 of the ATA/ATAPI-7 standard. 5.5 COMMAND INTERFACE 5.5.1 General Feature[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-3 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands READ FPDMA QUEUED 60h READ L OG EXTENSION 2fh READ MUL TIPLE C4h READ MUL TIPLE EXTENSION 29h READ NA TIVE MAX ADDRESS F8h READ NA TIVE MAX ADDRESS EXTENSION 27h READ SECT OR(S) 20h, 21h READ SECT OR(S) EXTENSION 24h READ VERIFY SECT OR(S) 40h, 41h READ VERIFY S[...]

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    5-4 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands SMART SA VE A TTRIBUTE V ALUES B0h D3h SMART WRITE L OG B0h D6h ST ANDBY 96h, E2h ST ANDBY IMMEDIA TE 94h, E0h WRITE BUFFER E8h WRITE DMA CAh, CBh WRITE DMA EXTENSION 35h WRITE DMA FUA EXTENSION 30h WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61h WRITE L OG EXTENSION 3fh WRITE MUL TIPLE[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-5 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 5.5.3 Identify Drive Command This command allows the host to receive parameter information from the drive. When the command is received, the drive: 1. Sets BSY 2. Stores the required parameter information in the sector buffer 3. Sets the DRQ bit 4. Generates an [...]

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    5-6 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 47 15-8: 80h 7-0: 00h = Reserved 01h-FFh: = Maximum number of sectors that shall be tr ansferr ed per interrupt on READ/ WRITE MUL TIPLE commands 48 Reserved 49 Capabilities 15-14: Reserved f or the IDENTIFY P ACKET DEVICE command. 13: 1 = Standby timer values a[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-7 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 53 15-3: Reserved 2: 1 = the fields r eported in wor d 88 are v alid. 0 = the fields r eported in wor d 88 are not v alid 1: 1 = the fields r eported in wor ds (70:64) are v alid. 0 = the fields r eported in wor ds (70:64) are not v alid 0: Obsolet e 54-58 Obsol[...]

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    5-8 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 68 Minimum PIO transf er cycle time with IORDY fl ow contr ol 15-0: Cycl e time in nanoseconds 69-70 Reserv ed (for futur e command overlap and queuing) 71-74 Reserv ed for IDENTIFY P ACKET DEVICE command. 75 Queue depth 15-5: Reserved 4-0: Maximum queue depth ?[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-9 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 81 Minor ver sion number 0000h or FFFFh = device does not r eport version. 0001h-FFFEh = see 6.16.41 of A T A/A T API-7 specification 82 Command set supported. 15: Obsolet e 14: 1 = NOP command supported 13: 1 = READ BUFFER command supported 12: 1 = WRITE BUFFER[...]

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    5-10 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 83 7: See Addr ess Offset Reserved Ar ea Boot, INCITS TR27:2001 6: 1 = SET FEA TURES subcommand r equired to spinup aft er power-up 5: 1 = Power-Up In St andby featur e set supported 4: 1 = Removabl e Media Status Notification f eature set support ed 3: 1 = Adv[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-11 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 85 7: 1 = r elease int errupt enabled 6: 1 = look-ahead enabl ed 5: 1 = write cache enabl ed 4: Shall be clear ed to zero t o indicate that the P ACKET Command f eature set is not supported. 3: 1 = Power Management f eature set enabl ed 2: 1 = Removabl e Media [...]

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    5-12 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 87 6: 1 = WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MUL TIPLE FUA EXT commands support ed 5: General Purpose Logging f eature set supported 4: 1 = V alid CONFIGURE STREAM command has been ex ecuted 3: 1 = Media Car d Pass Thr ough Command featur e set enabled 2: 1 = Media se[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-13 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 93 Har dware r eset result. The cont ents of bits (12:0) of this word shall change onl y during the ex ecution of a har dware r eset 15: Shall be clear ed to zero. 14: Shall be set to one. 13: 1 = device det ected CBLID- above ViH. 0 = devic e detected CBLID- b[...]

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    5-14 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 97 Str eam Acces s Latency - DMA 98-99 Streaming P erformance Gr anularity 100-103 Maximum user LBA for 48-bit Addr ess f eature set. 104 Str eam T ransfer Time – PIO 105 Str eam Acces s Latency – PIO 106 Physical sect or size 15: Shall be clear ed to zero [...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 5-15 ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands 128 Security status 15-9: Reserved 8: Security le vel 0 = High, 1 = Maximum 7-6: Reserved 5: 1 = Enhanced security erase support ed 4: 1 = Security count e xpired 3: 1 = Security fr ozen 2: 1 = Security lock ed 1: 1 = Security enabled 0: 1 = Security supported [...]

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    5-16 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands[...]

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    Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive 6-1 Chapter 6 Service and Support 6.1 GETTING HELP Before contacting Maxtor Support, use the Hard Disk Information feature in MaxBlast to view the model number and serial number of your drive. These numbers can be used to get help from Maxtor Support, register your drive, and look up information on t[...]

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    Service and Support 6-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive[...]

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    Glossary Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive G-1 A ACCESS – (v) Read, write, or update information on some storage medium, such as a disk. (n) One of these operations. ACCESS TIME – The interval between the time a request for data is made by the system and the time the data is available from the drive. Access time includes the actu[...]

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    Glossary G-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive CRC – Acronym for Cyclic Redundancy Check . An error detection code that is recorded within each sector and is used to see whether parts of a string of data are missing or erroneous. CYLINDER – On a disk drive that has more than one recording surface and heads that move to various tr[...]

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    Glossary Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive G-3 FORMATTED CAPACITY – The amount of room left to store data on the disk after the required space has been used to write sector headers, boundary definitions, and timing information generated by a format operation. All Maxtor drive capacities are expressed in formatted capacity. FORM FAC[...]

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    Glossary G-4 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive LOGICAL FORMAT – The logical drive geometry that appears to an AT system BIOS as defined by the drive tables and stored in CMOS. With an installation program like Disk Manager, the drive can be redefined to any logical parameters necessary to adapt to the system drive tables. LOOK AHEA[...]

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    Glossary Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive G-5 PLATTER – An disk made of metal (or other rigid material) that is mounted inside a fixed disk drive. Most drives use more than one platter mounted on a single spindle (shaft) to provide more data storage surfaces in a small package. The platter is coated with a magnetic material that i[...]

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    Glossary G-6 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive SPINDLE – The center shaft of the disk upon which the drive’s platters are mounted. SPUTTER – A type of coating process used to apply the magnetic coating to some high-performance disks. In sputtering, the disks are placed in a vacuum chamber and the coating is vaporized and deposi[...]