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ST5660A Product Manual, Rev. A
1.0 Specifications
1.1 Formatted capacity
The drive was low-level formatted at the factory—you cannot low-level
format it.
You can operate the drive using many different logical configurations,
provided the number of sectors per track does not exceed 63. Three
possible configurations are shown below. The first two configurations
represent conventional CHS addressing as used on most DOS comput-
ers. The third configuration uses LBA addressing.
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Total sectors
Formatted capacity (Mbytes***) 528.48
* This is the default configuration. This configuration can only be used
in computers that are capable of addressing more than 1,024 cylin-
ders. Therefore, if your computer cannot address more than 1,024
cylinders, you must change the configuration using the setup utility.
** This configuration can only be used in computers that support LBA
addressing.
***One megabyte equals one million bytes.
The drive was configured in translation mode at the factory. You can
verify the number of cylinders, sectors per track and heads and the total
number of LBA sectors by using the Identify Drive (EC
Section 3.1.1 for details about the Identify Drive command.
CHS
CHS*
1,024
1,057
16
16
63
63
1,032,192
1,065,456
545.3
) command. See
H
1
LBA**
N/A
N/A
N/A
1,066,184
545.8
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