Maxtor QUICKVIEW 300 - Manual (Page 15)

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