Maxtor ATLAS 10K III Product Manual page 8

Table of Contents
5.42 START STOP UNIT Command (1Bh) .......................................................................... 5-166
5.43 SYNCHRONIZE CACHE Command (35h) .................................................................. 5-167
5.44 TEST UNIT READY Command (00h) .......................................................................... 5-168
5.45 VERIFY Command (2Fh) ............................................................................................... 5-169
5.46 WRITE (6) Command (0Ah)........................................................................................... 5-170
5.47 WRITE (10) Command (2Ah)......................................................................................... 5-171
5.48 WRITE AND VERIFY Command (2Eh) ....................................................................... 5-172
5.49 WRITE BUFFER Command (3Bh) ................................................................................ 5-173
5.50 WRITE LONG Command (3Fh) .................................................................................... 5-175
5.51 WRITE SAME Command (41h) ..................................................................................... 5-176
5.52 WRITE SKIP MASK Command (EAh)........................................................................... 5-177
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6.1 KEY FEATURES................................................................................................................ 6-1
6.2 PREFETCH ........................................................................................................................ 6-2
6.3 WRITE-BACK CACHING................................................................................................ 6-3
6.4 ZERO LATENCY READ/WRITE ................................................................................... 6-3
6.5 DISCONNECT-RECONNECT ....................................................................................... 6-3
6.6 TRACK AND CYLINDER SKEWING ............................................................................ 6-3
6.7 AVERAGE ACCESS TIME ................................................................................................ 6-4
6.8 EMBEDDED SERVO SYSTEM......................................................................................... 6-4
6.9 DATA INTEGRITY AND SECURITY ............................................................................ 6-4
6.9.1 Media Error Protection ...............................................................................................6-4
6.9.2 Transfer Error Protection ............................................................................................6-4
6.9.3 Addressing Error Protection ........................................................................................6-4
6.9.4 Data Sector Reallocation Error Protection ..................................................................6-5
6.9.5 Data Verification ........................................................................................................6-5
6.10 TAGGED COMMAND QUEUING.................................................................................. 6-5
6.11 COMMAND REORDERING .......................................................................................... 6-5
6.12 BANDED RECORDING .................................................................................................. 6-6
6.13 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS ..................................................................................................... 6-6
6.14 POWER MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................ 6-6
6.15 DIAGNOSTICS .................................................................................................................. 6-6
6.15.1 Power On Self Test (POST) ......................................................................................6-7
6.15.2 Periodic Self-Adjustments ..........................................................................................6-7
6.15.3 Host Diagnostics ........................................................................................................6-7
6.15.4 Log Sense ..................................................................................................................6-8
6.16 ERROR RECOVERY ...................................................................................................... 6-8
6.16.1 Seek Error Recovery .................................................................................................6-8
6.16.2 Data Read Errors .......................................................................................................6-8
6.16.3 Reallocation of Bad Blocks ........................................................................................6-8
6.17 SCSI CONFIGURED AUTOMATICALLY (SCAM)........................................................ 6-9
6.18 THE ULTRA160 and ULTRA320 LOW VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL
(LVD) SCSI INTERFACE ................................................................................................... 6-9
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