Intel® Solid-State Drive 530 Series (M.2)
Product Specification September 2013
18 Order Number: 329213-002US
5 Supported Command Sets
The Intel SSD 530 Series supports all mandatory Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) and Serial
ATA (SATA) commands defined in the ACS-2 and SATA Revision 3.0 specifications. The mandatory and
optional commands are defined in this section.

5.1 ATA General Feature Command Set

General Feature command set (non-PACKET), which consists of:
EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC
FLUSH CACHE
IDENTIFY DEVICE 1
READ DMA
READ SECTOR(S)
READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)
SEEK
SET FEATURES
WRITE DMA
WRITE SECTOR(S)
READ MULTIPLE
SET MULTIPLE MODE
WRITE MULTIPLE
The Intel SSD 530 Series also supports the following op tional commands:
READ BUFFFER
WRITE BUFFER
NOP
DOWNLOAD MICROCODE
Note:
1. See the Appendix for details on the sector data returned after issuing an IDENTIFY DEVICE command.