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ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
The Maxtor D540X-4G 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. This includes the 48-bit Address feature set described in clause 6.
The µProcessor, Disk Controller, and ATA Interface electronics are contained in a
proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.
The Maxtor D540X-4G 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.
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
FLUSH CACHE
IDENTIFY DRIVE
IDLE
IDLE IMMEDIATE
NOP
READ BUFFER
5-2
Maxtor D540X-4G
Supported Commands
98h, E5h
B1h
B1h
B1h
B1h
92h
90h
E7h
ECh
97h, E3h
95h, E1h
00h
E4h
C1h
C2h
C0h
C3h
07h, 01h
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