Maxtor Computer Drive manual Supported Commands, Command Feature Register Code Values

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ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands

5.5.2Supported Commands

The DiamondMax 8S 40GB Serial ATA 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-7, volume 1 standard for a detailed description of these commands. The IDENTIFY DRIVE command, however, is elaborated in Identify Drive Command Parameters, table 5-2.

Table 5-1 lists the supported commands.

Table 5-1Supported Commands

		Command	Feature
	Command	Command	Register
	Command	Code	Register
		Code	Value(s)
			Value(s)


	CHECK POWER MODE	98h, E5h

	DEVICE CONFIGURATION FREEZE LOCK	B1h	C1h

	DEVICE CONFIGURATION IDENTIFY	B1h	C2h

	DEVICE CONFIGURATION RESTORE	B1h	C0h

	DEVICE CONFIGURATION SET	B1h	C3h

	DOWNLOAD MICROCODE	92h	07h, 01h

	EXECUTE DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC	90h

	FLUSH CACHE	E7h

	FLUSH CASHE EXT	EAh

	IDENTIFY DEVICE	ECh

	IDLE	97h, E3h

	IDLE IMMEDIATE	95h, E1h

	INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS	91h

	NOP	00h

	READ BUFFER	E4h

	READ DMA	C8h, C9h

	READ LONG	22h, 23h

	READ LONG EXT	2Fh

	READ MULTIPLE	C4h

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