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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

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Product Features

Functional / Interface

Maxtor DiamondMax™ VL 17 hard drives contain all necessary mechanical and electronic parts to interpret

control signals and commands from an AT-compatible host computer. See Section 3 Product Specifications, for

complete drive specifications.

Zone Density Recording

The disk capacity is increased with bit density management – common with Zone Density Recording. Each

disk surface is divided into 16 circumferential zones. All tracks within a given zone contain a constant

number of data sectors. The number of data sectors per track varies in different zones; the outermost zone

contains the largest number of data sectors and the innermost contains the fewest.

Read/Write Multiple Mode

This mode is implemented per ANSI ATA/ATAPI-5 specification. Read/Write Multiple allows the host to

transfer a set number of sectors without an interrupt request between them, reducing transfer process

overhead and improving host performance.

UltraDMA - Mode 4

Maxtor DiamondMax VL 17 hard drives fully comply with the new ANSI Ultra DMA protocol, which

greatly improves overall AT interface performance by significantly improving burst and sustained data

throughput.

Multi-word DMA (EISA Type B) - Mode 2

Supports multi-word Direct Memory Access (DMA) EISA Type B mode transfers.

Sector Address Translation

All DiamondMax VL 17 drives feature a universal translate mode. In an AT/EISA-class system, the drive may

be configured to any specified combination of cylinders, heads and sectors (within the range of the drive's

formatted capacity). DiamondMax VL 17 drives power-up in a translate mode:

LEDOMLYCDHTPSenoZLmocPWABLXAMYTICAPAC

4U14719537,336136)*()*(088,400,43BM014,71

3U10319902,526136)*()*(276,014,52BM010,31

2U17809858,616136)*()*(468,299,61BM007,8

1U13409614,86136)*()*(823,384,8BM343,4

(*) The fields LZone (Landing Zone) and WPcom (Write Pre-comp) are not used by the Maxtor hard drive

and the values may be either 0 or the values set by the BIOS. All capacities listed in the above table are based

on 10

or one million bytes.

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Brand	Maxtor
Model	90871U2 DiamondMax VL 17
Category	Hard Disk Drives
File type	PDF
File size	1.21 MB

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