5.3 Host Commands

 

 

CM: Command register

FR: Features register

DH: Device/Head register

ST: Status register

CH: Cylinder High register

ER: Error register

CL: Cylinder Low register

L: LBA (logical block address) setting bit

SN: Sector Number register

DV: Device address. bit

SC: Sector Count register

x, xx: Do not care (no necessary to set)

Note:

 

1.When the L bit is specified to 1, the lower 4 bits of the DH register and all bits of the CH, CL and SN registers indicate the LBA bits (bits of the DH register are the MSB (most significant bit) and bits of the SN register are the LSB (least significant bit).

2.At error occurrence, the SC register indicates the remaining sector count of data transfer.

3.In the table indicating I/O registers contents in this subsection, bit indication is omitted.

(1)READ SECTOR(S) (X’20’ or X’21’)

This command reads data of sectors specified in the Sector Count register from the address specified in the Device/Head, Cylinder High, Cylinder Low and Sector Number registers. Number of sectors can be specified to 256 sectors in maximum. To specify 256 sectors reading, ‘00’ is specified. For the DRQ, INTRQ, and BSY protocols related to data transfer, see Subsection 5.4.1.

If the head is not on the track specified by the host, the device performs an implied seek. After the head reaches to the specified track, the device reads the target sector.

If an error occurs, retry reads are attempted to read the target sector before reporting an error, irrespective of the R bit setting.

The DRQ bit of the Status register is always set prior to the data transfer regardless of an error condition.

Upon the completion of the command execution, command block registers contain the cylinder, head, and sector addresses (in the CHS mode) or logical block address (in the LBA mode) of the last sector read.

If an unrecoverable error occurs in a sector, the read operation is terminated at the sector where the error occurred.

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