Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3500
Product Specification December 2013
20 328860-003US
5.0 Supported Command Sets

Intel SSD DC S3500 supports all mandatory ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)

commands defined in the ATA8-ACS specification described in this section.

5.1 ATA General Feature Command Set

The Intel SSD DC S3500 supports the ATA General Fea ture command set (non- PACKET),

which consists of:

EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC
SET FEATURES
IDENTIFY DEVICE

Note: See Appendix A, “IDENTIFY DEVICE Command Data” on page 27 for details on

the sector data returned after issuing an IDENTIFY DEVICE command.

Intel SSD DC S3500 also supports the following optional commands:

READ DMA
WRITE DMA
READ SECTOR(S)
READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)
READ MULTIPLE
SEEK
SET FEATURES
WRITE SECTOR(S)
SET MULTIPLE MODE1
WRITE MULTIPLE
FLUSH CACHE
READ BUFFFER
WRITE BUFFER
NOP
DOWNLOAD MICROCODE
WRITE UNCORRECTABLE EXT
1. The only multiple supported will be mult iple 1

5.2 Power Management Command Set

Intel SSD DC S3500 supports the Power Management command set, which consists of:

CHECK POWER MODE
IDLE
IDLE IMMEDIATE
SLEEP
STANDBY
STANDBY IMMEDIATE

5.3 Security Mode Feature Set

Intel SSD DC S3500 supports the Security Mode command set, wh ich consists of:

SECURITY SET PASSWORD
SECURITY UNLOCK
SECURITY ERASE PREPARE
SECURITY ERASE UNIT
SECURITY FREEZE LOCK
SECURITY DISABLE PASSWORD