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Specifications

Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 4-11

4.12 DISK ERRORS

Table 4-9 provides the error rates for the Maxtor Atlas 10K IV hard disk drive.

Table 4-9 Error Rates

1. Recovered read errors are errors which require retries for data correction.

Errors corrected by ECC on-the-fly are not considered recovered read

errors. Read on arrival is disabled to meet this specification.

2. Uncorrectable read errors are those that are not correctable using an Error

Correcting Code (ECC), or retries within the retry limits specified in the

mode pages. The drive terminates the command either when a repeating

error pattern occurs, or after both the specified number of retries and

application of triple burst error correction fail to correct the error.

3. A seek error occurs when the actuator fails to reach or remain on the

requested cylinder, and/or the drive requires the execution of the full

calibration routine to locate the requested cylinder.

ERROR TYPE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ERRORS

Recovered read errors

<10 events per 10

bits read

Uncorrectable read errors

1 event per 10

bits read

Seek Errors

<10 events per 10

seeks