General; Introduction; Terminology - Hitachi IC25N040ATMR04-0 - Travelstar 40GB Laptop Hard Drive 9.5mm 2.5 Inch Notebook HDD Specifications

8.0 General

8.1 Introduction

This specification describes the host interface of the Travelstar 80GN.
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 61.
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 80GN 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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