Fujitsu MHD2021AT, MHC2032AT, MHC2040AT, MHD2032AT manual Write Cache

Operations

3)The cache data for next read command is as follows.

Cache data

Start LBA Last LBA

6.6 Write Cache

The write cache function of the drive makes a high speed processing in the case that data to be written by a write command is physically sequent the data of previous command and random write operation is performed.

When the drive receives a write command, the drive starts transferring data of sectors requested by the host system and writing on the disk medium. After transferring data of sectors requested by the host system, the drive generates the interrupt of command complete. Also, the drive sets the normal end status in the Status register.

The drive continues writing data on the disk medium. When all data requested by the host are written on the disk medium, actual write operation is completed.

The drive receives the next command continuously. If the received command is a “sequential write” (data to be written by a command is physically sequent to data of previous command), the drive starts data transfer and receives data of sectors requested by the host system. At this time, if the write operation of the previous command is still been executed, the drive continuously executes the write operation of the next command from the sector next to the last sector of the previous write operation. Thus, the latency time for detecting a target sector of the next command is eliminated. This shortens the access time.

The drive generates an interrupt of command complete after completion of data transfer requested by the host system as same as at previous command.

When the write operation of the previous command had been completed, the latency time occurs to search the target sector.

If the received command is not a “sequential write”, the drive receives data of sectors requested by the host system as same as “sequential write”. The drive generates the interrupt of command complete after completion of data transfer requested by the host system. Received data is processed after completion of the write operation to the disk medium of the previous command.

Even if a hard reset or soft reset is received or the write cache function is disabled by the SET FEATURES command during unwritten data is kept, the instruction is not enabled until remaining unwritten data is written onto the disk medium.

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