Sector Addressing Mode; Logical Chs Addressing Mode; Lba Addressing Mode; Overlapped And Queued Feature - Hitachi 7K250 - Deskstar - Hard Drive Specifications

10.4 Sector Addressing Mode

All addressing of data sectors recorded on the device's media is done by a logical sector address. The logical CHS
address for HDS7225xxVLATx0 is different from the actual physical CHS location of the data sector on the disk
media.
HDS7225xxVLATx0 supports both Logical CHS Addressing Mode and LBA Addressing Mode as the sector
addressing mode.
The host system may select either the currently selected CHS translation addressing or LBA addressing on a
command-by-command basis by using the L bit in the DEVICE/HEAD register. A host system must set the L bit to
1 if the host uses LBA Addressing mode.

10.4.1 Logical CHS addressing mode

The logical CHS addressing is made up of three fields: the cylinder number, the head number, and the sector number.
Sectors are numbered from 1 to the maximum value allowed by the current CHS translation mode but cannot exceed
255 (0FFh). Heads are numbered from 0 to the maximum value allowed by the current CHS translation mode but
cannot exceed 15 (0Fh). Cylinders are numbered from 0 to the maximum value allowed by the current CHS
translation mode but cannot exceed 65535 (0FFFFh).
When the host selects a CHS translation mode using the INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS command, the host
requests the number of sectors per logical track and the number of heads per logical cylinder. The device then
computes the number of logical cylinders available in requested mode.
The default CHS translation mode is described in the Identify Device Information. The current CHS translation
mode also is described in the Identify Device Information.

10.4.2 LBA addressing mode

Logical sectors on the device shall be linearly mapped with the first LBA addressed sector (sector 0) being the same
sector as the first logical CHS addressed sector (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). Irrespective of the logical CHS
translation mode currently in effect, the LBA address of a given logical sector does not change. The following
formula is always true:
LBA = ((cylinder x heads_per_cylinder + heads) x sectors_per_track) + sector - 1
where heads_per_cylinder and sectors_per_track are the current translation mode values.
On LBA addressing mode the LBA value is set to the following register:
Device/Head
Cylinder High
Cylinder Low
Sector Number

10.5 Overlapped and queued feature

Overlap allows devices to perform a bus release so that the other device on the bus may be used. To perform a bus
release the device clears both DRQ and BSY to zero. When selecting the other device during overlapped operations,
the host shall disable interrupts via the nIEN bit on the currently selected device before writing the Device/Head
register to select the other device.
<- - - LBA bits 27–24
<- - - LBA bits 23–16
<- - - LBA bits 15–8
<- - - LBA bits 7–0
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