Alternate Spare Area - Fujitsu MAN3184MC - Enterprise 18.4 GB Hard Drive Product/Maintenance Manual

A number staring with 0 is assigned to each cylinder required in the user space in ascending order.
If the number of cylinders do not reach the maximum, the rest of the cylinders will not be used.
Always one alternate cylinders can be established in the user space. Alternate cylinders will be
used for alternate blocks when primary cylinders in the user space are used up. See Subsections
3.1.2 and 3.3.2 for details.
(2) Internal test space
The Internal test space is an area for diagnostic purposes only and its data block length is always
512KByte. The Internal test space consists of 8 cylinders and outer-host cylinder is always
assigned. The user cannot change the number of cylinders in the Internal test space or their
positions.
(3) System space
The system space is an area for exclusive use of the IDD itself and the following information are
recorded.
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Defect list (P list and G list)
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MODE SELECT parameter (saved value)
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Statistical information (log data)
•
Controller control information
The above information is duplicated in several different locations for safety.
Note:
The system space is also called SA space.
3.1.2

Alternate spare area

The alternate spare area consists of the last track of each cell in the user space and an alternate
cylinder allocated to the last cylinder of each zone.
The spare area in each cylinder is placed at the end of the last track as shown in Figure 3.2. These
spare sectors are located in the end of the track logically, not necessarily located at the end
physically because of track skew or cylinder skew. (Details are explained on Subsection 3.1.3.)
Size can be specified by the MODE SELECT command.
The number of spare sectors per cylinder can be specified exceeding 32. The default for the spare
sectors number is 12.
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