Register Address Decoding; Command Interface; General Feature Set; Supported Commands - Maxtor QUICKVIEW 300 Product Manual

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
Hosts may assert the RESET- signal for longer than the minimum. When
power is applied with RESET- asserted, the Quickview 300 disk media
will not begin to spin up until RESET- is negated. This may reduce
maximum current consumption for the overall system.
5.4

REGISTER ADDRESS DECODING

The Quickview 300 hard disk drives allow their host systems to address
the full set of command and control registers as specified in clause 7 of
the ATA/ATAPI-6 standard.
5.5

COMMAND INTERFACE

5.5.1

General Feature Set

The µProcessor, Disk Controller, and PATA Interface electronics are
contained in a proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.
5.5.2

Supported Commands

The Quickview 300 hard disk drives support all the mandatory
commands from the general feature set for devices not supporting the
Packet command feature set. Refer to the ATA/ATAPI-6 standard for a
detailed description of these commands. The IDENTIFY DRIVE command,
however, is elaborated in the section "Identify Drive Command" on
page 6.
Note: 1. As defined in the ATA/ATAPI-6 standard.
Table 5-1 lists the supported commands.
CHECK POWER MODE
DEVICE CONFIGURATION FREEZE LOCK
DEVICE CONFIGURATION IDENTIFY
DEVICE CONFIGURATION RESTORE
DEVICE CONFIGURATION SET
DOWNLOAD MICROCODE
EXECUTE DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC
5-2 Quickview 300 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB PATA
Table 5-1
Supported Commands
Command
Feature
Command
Register
Code
Value(s)
E5h
B1h C1h
B1h C2h
B1h C0h
B1h C3h
92h 07h, 01h
90h