Specifications; Formatted Capacity; Standard Configuration - Seagate Medalist 2520 Product Manual

Medalist 2520 Product Manual, Rev. A

1.0 Specifications

1.1 Formatted capacity

The ST32520A drive supports cylinder-head-sector (CHS) and logical-
block addressing (LBA) translation modes. You can use the Identify Drive
(ECH) command to verify the address modes the drive supports, the
number of cylinders, sectors per track, total number of sectors, heads
and other parameters. The Identify drive parameters are listed in Section
3.2.1 on page 29.
N N otes:
1. DOS and FAT 16 cannot access more than 2.147 Gbytes per
partition. You must create multiple 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 4,092 cylinders,
it may cause the computer to hang during startup, or it may
truncate or wrap the cylinders. To resolve this issue, the system
BIOS needs to be modified: the cylinder register or variable must
be increased from 12 bits to 16 bits to accommodate more than
4,092 cylinders. See Section 2.4.2 on page 21.

1.1.1 Standard configuration

CHS Mode
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Guaranteed sectors
Guaranteed capacity (Mbytes)
LBA Mode
When addressing the drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are con-
secutively numbered from 0 to n –1.
ST32520A
4,888
16
63
4,927,104
2,521
5