3.0 Drive Characteristics
This chapter provides the characteristics of the drives.
3.1 Logical Drive Format
The customer usable data capacity is as shown below.
Figure 3. Drive Parameter
Descriptions
Logical Head Number
Logical Sectors/Track
Logical Cylinder Number
Logical Sector Size
Total Customer Usable Data
Sectors
Total Customer Usable Data Bytes
3.2 Data Sheet
Figure 4. Data Sheet
Media transfer rate [ Mb/sec]
Interface transfer rate [ MB/sec]
Data buffer size [ KB]
Rotational speed [ R P M ]
Average latency [ msec]
Recording density [ Kbpi]
Track density [ TPI]
Areal density [ Gb/sq.in.]
Number of zone
Number of disks
Number of heads
Servo design method
Copyright IBM Corp. 1998
DBCA-203240
DBCA-204860
16
63
6304
512
6 354 432
3250 MB
3,253,469,184
4,871,301,120
69.0 - 118.0
33.3 MB/sec Max ( Ultra D M A Mode-2 )
16.6 MB/sec Max ( PIO-4 )
420 KB
( Read / Write )
4200
7.1
286.1 Maximum
19,900
5.7 Maximum
12
1 / 2
2 / 3 / 4
Embedded sector servo
DBCA-206480
15
63
10068
13424
512
9 514 260
12 685 680
4870 MB
6490 MB
6,495,068,160
15
63
512
9