Medalist 1640 and 2140 Product Manual, January 1996
1.0 Specifications
Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient
conditions, at 25°C, at sea level and nominal power.
1.1 Formatted capacity
Medalist drives are low-level formatted at the factory. You cannot low-
level format them.
You can operate the drive using many different address configurations,
provided the number of sectors per track does not exceed 63. The
following tables show CHS and LBA translation geometries for the
standard configurations. You can verify the parameters using the Identify
Drive (EC
) command.
H
1.1.1 Standard configuration
ST31640A
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Guaranteed sectors
Guaranteed capacity (bytes
ST32140A
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Guaranteed sectors
Guaranteed capacity (bytes
3. One Mbyte equals one million bytes.
CHS
3,150
16
63
3,175,200
3
)
1,625,702,400
CHS
4,095
16
63
4,127,760
3
)
2,113,413,120
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