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Medalist XE Family Product Manual, Rev. B
1.0 Specification summary
The Medalist 275xe and 545xe drives use an ATA interface. The interface
conforms to ATA (AT Attachment) Interface X3.221, Rev. 4; SFF 8011:
ATA Timing Extension for Local Bus Attachments, Rev. 2.0 ; SFF 8019:
Identify Drive Data for Drives Under 8 GB and Draft Proposal American
National Standards AT Attachment Interface X3.310-948D, Rev. 2E.
Note. The Medalist drives are referred to by their model numbers
throughout this manual. The Medalist 275xe is referred to as the
ST3295A. The Medalist 545xe is referred to as the ST3660A.
1.1 Format configuration
Seagate Medalist drives are low-level formatted at the factory. You do
not need to low-level format the drive.
The drives support LBA addressing and are configured in translation
mode at the factory. (You can verify the number of cylinders, sectors per
track and heads and the total number of sectors using the Identify Drive
(EC
) command.) The table below shows the factory configurations.
H
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors per track
Formatted capacity (Mbytes*)
Total sectors
* One Mbyte equals one million bytes.
You can use other values to configure the drive provided the following
conditions are met:
The number of sectors per track does not exceed 256.
The number of sectors per track and the number of heads satisfy the
following relationship:
16
(sectors per track)
The total sectors do not exceed the physical capacity of the drive. You
can calculate the total sectors with the following formula:
total sectors = (logical heads)
cylinders).
ST3295A
ST3660A
761
1,057
14
16
50
63
272.7
545.5
532,700
1,065,456
(heads)
4,096.
(logical sectors per track)
1
(logical
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