Figure 1 Plist Physical Format - Hitachi CinemaStar P7K500 Specifications

Defect flagging strategy
5.0
Media defects are remapped to the next available sector during the Format Process in manufacturing. The
mapping from LBA to the physical locations is calculated by an internally maintained table.
Shipped format
• Data areas are optimally used.
• No extra sector is wasted as a spare throughout user data areas.
• All pushes generated by defects are absorbed by the spare tracks of the inner zone.
Figure 1
PList physical format
Defects are skipped without any constraint, such as track or cylinder boundary. The calculation
from LBA to physical is done automatically by internal table. Specification
HITACHI Deskstar & CinemaStar P7K500 Hard Disk Drive specification (Rev 1.1)
N N+1
defect
skip
14
N+2 N+3
defect
skip