Register Address Decoding; Command Interface; General Feature Set; Supported Commands - Maxtor DiamondMax16 60 Product Manual

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
5.4

REGISTER ADDRESS DECODING

The Maxtor DiamondMax16 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.
5.5

COMMAND INTERFACE

5.5.1

General Feature Set

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

Supported Commands

The Maxtor DiamondMax16 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 DiamondMax16 60/80/120/160GB
Table 5-1
Supported Commands
Command
Feature
Command
Register
Code
Value(s)
98h, E5h
B1h C1h
B1h C2h
B1h C0h
B1h C3h
92h 07h, 01h
90h
E7h
ECh
97h, E3h
95h, E1h
00h
E4h