Specifications; Formatted Capacity; Standard Configuration - Seagate Medalist Pro Series Product Manual

Medalist Pro 2520/2160 Product Manual, Rev. C

1.0 Specifications

1.1 Formatted Capacity

Medalist Pro drives are low-level formatted at the factory. You cannot
low-level format them.
These drives support cylinder-head-sector (CHS) and logical-block address-
ing (LBA) translation modes. You can use the Identify drive (EC
to verify the address modes the drives support, the number of cylinders,
sectors per track, total number of sectors, heads and other parameters. The
Identify drives parameters are listed in Section 3.2.1 on page 29.
Notes:
1. DOS cannot access more than 2.147 Gbytes per partition. You
must create 2 or more partitions to access the drive's full capacity.
2. One Mbyte equals one million bytes.
3. If the system BIOS does not support more than 4,096 cylin-
ders, it can cause the computer to hang during boot, or it can
truncate or wrap the cylinders. To resolve this issue the sys-
tem BIOS needs to be modified: the cylinder register or vari-
able must be increased from 12-bits to 16-bits to
accommodate more than 4,096 cylinders.

1.1.1 Standard Configuration

ST52160A
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Guaranteed sectors
Guaranteed capacity (Gbytes)
ST52520A
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Guaranteed sectors
Guaranteed capacity (Gbytes)
H
CHS LBA
4,095 N/A
16 N/A
63 N/A
4,127,760
2.113
CHS LBA
4,970 N/A
16 N/A
63 N/A
5,009,760
2.564
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