Register Address Decoding; Command Interface; General Feature Set; Supported Commands - Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80 ATA Installation And Use Manual

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
5.4

REGISTER ADDRESS DECODING

The Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive allow their host
systems to address the full set of command and control registers as specified in clause
5 of the ATA/ATAPI-7 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 DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT hard disk drive supports all the
mandatory commands from the general feature set for devices not supporting the
Packet command feature set. Table 5-1 lists the supported commands. Refer to the
ATA/ATAPI-7 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.
1. As defined in the ATA/ATAPI-7 standard.
CHECK POWER MODE
DEVICE CONFIGURATION FREEZE LOCK
DEVICE CONFIGURATION IDENTIFY
DEVICE CONFIGURATION RESTORE
DEVICE CONFIGURATION SET
DOWNLOAD MICROCODE
EXECUTE DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC
FLUSH CACHE EXTENSION
IDENTIFY DEVICE
READ DMA EXTENSION
5-2 Maxtor DiamondMax 17 80-160GB AT Hard Disk Drive
Command
FLUSH CACHE
IDLE
IDLE IMMEDIATE
NOP
READ BUFFER
READ DMA
Table 5-1
Supported Commands
Feature Register
Command Code
Value(s)
98h, E5h
B1h
B1h
B1h
B1h
92h 07h, 01h
90h
E7h
EAh
ECh
97h, E3h
95h, E1h
00h
E4h
C8h, C9h
25h
C1h
C2h
C0h
C3h