Identify Drive Command (Ec H ) - Seagate Medalist 1270 Product Manual

Medalist 1270 Product Manual, August 1995
3.2.1 Identify Drive command (EC
The Identify Drive parameters for the drive are listed in the table below.
The Seagate ATA Interface Reference Manual , publication number
36111- xxx , describes the Identify Drive command in detail.
Word Description
Configuration
0
Default cylinders
1
Reserved
2
Default heads
3
Bytes per track
4
Bytes per sector
5
Default sectors per
6
track
Vendor-unique
7–9
Serial number
10–19
Buffer type
20
Buffer size (number
21
of 512-byte sectors)
ECC bytes (R/W
22
Long)
Firmware revision
23–26
Model number
27–46
continued
)
H
Value
047A
H
0400 Disc transfer rate
H
> 10 Mbytes per second
0040 Fixed drive
H
0020 Spindle motor control
H
option implemented
0010 Head switch time
H
> 15 µsec
0008 Not MFM encoded
H
0002 Hard sectored
H
2,485
0
16
8EBC (36540 decimal)
H
(unformatted)
244 (580 decimal)
H
(unformatted)
63
0000
H
Drive-unique: 20 ASCII characters
0003 Multisector with caching
H
0200
H
0004
H
Drive-dependent: 8 ASCII
characters
Drive-dependent: 40 ASCII
characters
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