General; Introduction; Terminology - Hitachi HTS548040M9AT00 Specifications

8.0 General

8.1 Introduction

This specification describes the host interface of the Travelstar 5K80.
The interface conforms to the Working Document of Information technology, AT Attachment with Packet Interface
Extension (ATA/ATAPI-6) Revision 2, dated 2 August 2001, with certain limitations described in Section 9.0,
"Deviations from standard" on page 57.
The drive supports the following functions as Vendor Specific Functions:
• Address Offset Feature
• Format Unit Function
• SENSE CONDITION command

8.2 Terminology

Device
Host
First Command
INTRQ
The Travelstar 5K80 drive
Host indicates the system that the device is attached to.
The first command which is executed after the power on reset (also known as a
hard reset) is the Standby mode command.
Interrupt request (Device or Host)
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