Register Address Decoding; Command Interface; General Feature Set; Supported Commands - Maxtor Quickview 40 Product Manual

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
5.4

REGISTER ADDRESS DECODING

The Maxtor Quickview 40 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.
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 Quickview 40 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.
The IDENTIFY DRIVE command, however, is elaborated in the section "Identify
Drive Command" on page 5-5.
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
5-2 Quickview 40 20/30/40GB AT
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