INTERFACE COMMANDS
Mode Set/Check Commands
Set Features Mode
Enables or disables features supported by the drive. When the drive receives this command it:
1.Sets BSY,
2.Checks the contents of the Features register,
3.Clears BSY and
4.Generates an interrupt.
If the value of the register is not a feature supported by the drive, the command is aborted. The acceptable values in the Features register are defined as follows:
VALUE | DESCRIPTION | |
0 2 h | Enabled Write Cache | |
03h | Set Transfer Mode based on value in Sector Count register | |
05h | Enable Advanced Power Management | |
42h | Enable Automatic Acoustic Management. The sector count register contains the | |
| Automatic Acoustic Management level. | |
| S E C T O R | L EV E L |
| F F h | Maxtor specific |
| FEh | Maximum performance |
| 81h - FDh | Intermediate acoustic management levels |
| 80h | Minimum acoustic emanation level |
| reserved | |
44h | Length of data appended on Read Long/Write Long commands specified in the | |
| Identify Device information | |
55h | Disable Read | |
66h | Disable reverting to | |
82h | Disable Write Cache | |
85h | Disable Advanced Power Management | |
AAh | Enable Read | |
BBh | 4 bytes of Maxtor specific data appended on Read Long/Write Long commands | |
C2h | Disable Automatic Acoustic Management | |
C C h | Enable reverting to |
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