Maxtor ATLAS 10K III - Manual (Page 143)

SCSI Description
Maxtor Atlas 10K III 5-79
Table 5-95 Format Device Page-Field Descriptions (Page 3)
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PS 0
Parameters Savable. This bit is only used with the MODE SENSE com-
mand. 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:
 for 18 GB,  for 36 GB,  for 73 GB
Alternate
Sectors/Zone
The number of spare locations within a notch:
 for 18 GB,  for 36 GB,  for 73 GB
Alternate Tracks/
Zone
0 The drive does not have any alternate tracks.
Alternate Tracks/
Logical Unit
The number of tracks reserved for defect handling:
 for 18 GB,  for 36 GB,  for 73 GB
Sectors/Track 579
The number of Physical Block Address sectors per track. The value de-
pends on the Notch value selected in the Notch and Partitions page.
Data Bytes/
Physical Sector
512 This value is the current disk sector size.
Interleave 1 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:
25 for 18 GB, 25 for 36 GB, 25 for 73 GB
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:
23 for 18 GB, 23 for 36 GB, 23 for 73 GB
SSEC 0 The drive does not use soft sector formatting.
HSEC 1 The drive supports hard sector formatting only.
RMB 0 The drive does not support removable logical media.
SURF 0
A Surface bit value of 0 indicates that the drive allocates progressive
addresses to all logical blocks within a cylinder prior to allocating ad-
dresses on the next cylinder.