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2 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 3 default logical geometry – Seagate Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA ST9250311CS User Manual

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2.2

Formatted capacity

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment

and formatting.

2.2.1

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,
where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-
bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

2.3

Default logical geometry

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,
where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

Model

Formatted capacity*

Guaranteed sectors

Bytes per sector

ST9250311CS

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

ST91603110CS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

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