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Seagate continues to use innovative technologies to manage defects and errors. These technologies are designed to increase data 

integrity, perform drive self-maintenance, and validate proper drive operation.

SCSI defect and error management involves drive internal defect/error management and SAS system error considerations (errors in 

communications between the initiator and the drive). In addition, Seagate provides the following technologies used to increase data 

integrity and drive reliability:
• Background Media Scan (see Section 9.4)
• Deferred Auto-Reallocation (see Section 9.5)
• Idle Read After Write (see Section 9.6)

The read error rates and specified storage capacities are not dependent on host (initiator) defect management routines.

During the initial drive format operation at the factory, media defects are identified, tagged as being unusable, and their locations recorded 

on the drive primary defects list (referred to as the “P’ list and also as the ETF defect list). At factory format time, these  known defects are 

also reallocated, that is, reassigned to a new place on the medium and the location listed in the defects reallocation table. The “P” list is not 

altered after factory formatting. Locations of defects found and reallocated during error recovery procedures after drive shipment are listed 

in the “G” list (defects growth list). The “P” and “G” lists may be referenced by the initiator using the Read Defect Data command.

Details of the SCSI commands supported by the drive are described in the SAS Interface Manual. Also, more information on the drive Error 

Recovery philosophy is presented in the SAS Interface Manual.

When an error occurs during drive operation, the drive, if programmed to do so, performs error recovery procedures to attempt t o recover 

the data. The error recovery procedures used depend on the option s previously set in the Error Recovery Parameters mode page. E rror 

recovery and defect management may involve using several SCSI commands described in the SAS Interface Manual. The drive 

implements selectable error recovery time limits required in video applications.

The error recovery scheme supported by the drive provides a way to control the total error recovery time for the entire command in addition 

to controlling the recovery level for a single LBA. The total amount of time spent in error recovery for a command can be limit ed using the 

Recovery Time Limit bytes in the Error Recovery mode page. The total amount of time spent in error recovery for a single LBA can be 

limited using the Read Retry Count or Write Retry Count bytes in the Error Recovery mode page. 

The drive firmware error recovery algorithms  consists of 20 levels for r ead recoveries and six levels for write. Each level may  consist of 

multiple steps, where a step is defined as a recovery function involving a single re-read or re-write attempt. The maximum level used by the 

drive in LBA recovery is determined by the read and write retry counts.

The table on the next page equates the read and write retry count with the maximum possible recovery time for read and write recovery of 

individual LBAs. The times given do not include time taken to perform reallocations. Reallocations are performed when the ARRE  bit (for 

reads) or AWRE bit (for writes) is one, the RC bit is zero, and the recovery time limit for the command has not yet been met. Time needed 

to perform reallocation is not counted against the recovery time limit.

When the RC bit is one, reallocations are disabled even if the ARRE or AWRE bits are one. The drive will still perform data recovery 

actions within the limits defined by the Read Retry Count, Write Retry Count, and Recovery Time Limit parameters. However, the drive 

does not report any unrecovered errors.