Drive Specifications; Formatted Capacity; Default Logical Geometry - Seagate ST32122A - Medalist 2.1 GB Hard Drive Product Manual

Medalist 4342, 3232, 2122, 1722 and 1012 Product Manual

1.0 Drive specifications

Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient
conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases
the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the
ST34342A, ST33232A, ST32122A, ST31722A and the ST31012A.

1.1 Formatted capacity

Drive Guaranteed Mbytes
Model (1 Mbyte = 10
ST34342A
ST33232A
ST32122A
ST31722A
ST31012A
Note. DOS systems cannot access more than 528 Mbytes on a drive un-
less 1) the host system supports and is configured for LBA address-
ing or for extended CHS addressing, 2) the host system contains a
specialized drive controller, or 3) the host system runs BIOS trans-
lation software. Contact your Seagate

1.1.1 Default logical geometry

CHS Mode Cylinders
ST34342A 8,894
ST33232A 6,253
ST32122A 4,092
ST31722A 3,303
ST31012A 2,098
LBA Mode
When addressing your drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are
consecutively numbered from 0 to n – 1, where n is the number of
guaranteed sectors as defined in the table above.
Guaranteed
6
sectors ( n )
bytes)
4,303 8,404,830
3,227 6,303,024
2,111 4,124,736
1,704 3,329,424
1,082 2,114,784
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Read/Write heads
15
16
16
16
16
Bytes per
sector
512
512
512
512
512
representative for details.
Sectors per track
63
63
63
63
63
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