Specifications

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

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Product Features

Functional / Interface

Maxtor DiamondMax™ 3400 hard drives contain all necessary mechanical and electronic parts to interpret control

signals and commands from an AT-compatible host computer. See Section 3 Product Specifications, for complete

drive specifications.

Zone Density Recording

The disk capacity is increased with bit density management – common with Zone Density Recording. Each

disk surface is divided into 16 circumferential zones. All tracks within a given zone contain a constant

number of data sectors. The number of data sectors per track varies in different zones; the outermost zone

contains the largest number of data sectors and the innermost contains the fewest.

Read/Write Multiple Mode

This mode is implemented per ANSI ATA/ATAPI-4 specification. Read/Write Multiple allows the host to

transfer a set number of sectors without an interrupt request between them, reducing transfer process

overhead and improving host performance.

UltraDMA - Mode 2

Maxtor DiamondMax 3400 hard drives fully comply with the new ANSI Ultra DMA protocol, which greatly

improves overall AT interface performance by significantly improving burst and sustained data throughput.

Multi-word DMA (EISA Type B) - Mode 2

Supports multi-word Direct Memory Access (DMA) EISA Type B mode transfers.

Sector Address Translation

All DiamondMax 3400 drives feature a universal translate mode. In an AT/EISA-class system, the drive may

be configured to any specified combination of cylinders, heads and sectors (within the range of the drive's

formatted capacity). DiamondMax 3400 drives power-up in a translate mode:

LEDOMLYCDHTPSenoZLmocPWYTICAPACABLXAM

8D06319353626136)*()*(BM006,31428,465,62

7D09119950326136)*()*(BM009,11274,342,32

6D02019567916136)*()*(BM002,01021,329,91

5D54809383616136)*()*(BM554,8460,415,61

4D08609671316136)*()*(BM008,6804,182,31

3D0150928896136)*()*(BM001,5650,169,9

2D0430988566136)*()*(BM004,3407,046,6

(*) The fields LZone (Landing Zone) and WPcom (Write Pre-comp) are not used by the Maxtor hard drive

and the values may be either 0 or the values set by the BIOS. All capacities listed in the above table are based

on 10

or one million bytes.