5K320 SATA OEM Specification

12.5.1Power Mode

Sleep Mode

The lowest power consumption when the device is powered on occurs in Sleep Mode.

 

When in sleep mode, the device requires a reset to be activated.

Standby Mode

The device interface is capable of accepting commands, but as the media may not

 

immediately accessible, there is a delay while waiting for the spindle to reach

 

operating speed.

Idle Mode

Refer to the section of Adaptive Battery Life Extender Feature.

Active Mode

The device is in execution of a command or accessing the disk media with read

 

look-ahead function or write cache function.

12.5.2Power Management Commands

The Check Power Mode command allows a host to determine if a device is currently in, going to or leaving standby mode.

The Idle and Idle Immediate commands move a device to idle mode immediately from the active or standby modes. The idle command also sets the standby timer count and starts the standby timer.

The sleep command moves a device to sleep mode. The device’s interface becomes inactive at the completion of the sleep command. A reset is required to move a device out of sleep mode. When a device exits sleep mode it will enter standby mode.

The Standby and Standby Immediate commands move a device to standby mode immediately from the active or idle modes. The standby command also sets the standby timer count.

12.5.3Standby/Sleep command completion timing

1.Confirm the completion of writing cached data in the buffer to media

2.Unload heads on the ramp

3.Set DRDY bit and DSC bit in Status Register

4.Activate the spindle break to stop the spindle motor

5.Wait until spindle motor is stopped

6.Perform post process

12.5.4Status

In the active, idl e and standby modes, the device shall have RDY bit of the status register set. If BSY bit is not set, device shall be ready to accept any command.

In sleep mode, the device’s interface is not active. A host shall not attempt to read the device’s status or issue commands to the device.

12.5.5Interface Capability for Power Modes

Each power mode affects the physical interface as defined in the following table:

Mode

Active

Idle

Standby

Sleep

 

BSY

RDY

 

x

x

 

0

1

 

0

1

 

x

x

Interface active

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Media

Active

Active

Inactive

Inactive

Table 34 Power conditions

Ready(RDY) is not a power condition. A device may post ready at the interface even though the media may not be accessible.

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Hitachi HTS543212L9SA00 manual Power Mode, Power Management Commands, Standby/Sleep command completion timing, Status