Specifications

The format device page contains parameters which specify the medium format. This page contains no

changeable parameters.

! Tracks per Zone specifies the number of tracks within the zone. This field is a function of the active

notch.

A value of 0 in the following parameters indicates that they are drive specific.

Alternate Sectors per Zone

Alternate Tracks per Zone

Alternate Tracks per Logical Unit

! Sectors per Track specifies the number of physical sectors within each track. This field is a function

of the active notch.

! Data Bytes per Physical Sector specifies the number of user data bytes per physical sector. The

value depends upon the current formatted block length.

! Track Skew Factor indicates the number of physical sectors between the last block of one track and

the first block on the next sequential track of the same cylinder. This field is a function of the active

notch.

! Cylinder Skew Factor indicates the number of physical sectors between the last block of one cylinder

and the first block on the next sequential cylinder. This field is a function of the active notch.

! SSEC of zero indicates that the drive does not support soft sector formatting.

! HSEC of one indicates that the drive supports hard sector formatting.

! RMB of zero indicates that the media does not support a removable fixed disk.

! SURF of zero indicates that progressive addresses are assigned to all logical blocks in a cylinder prior

to allocating addresses within the next cylinder.

Ultrastar 146Z10 hard disk drive specifications