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5.42 START STOP UNIT Command (1Bh) .......................................................................... 5-166
5.43 SY NCHRO NIZE CACHE Command (35h).................................................................. 5-167
5.44 TEST UNIT READY Command (00h) ....................... ........... .................. ........... ........... 5-168
5.45 VERIFY Command (2Fh) ............................................................................................... 5-169
5.46 WRITE (6) Command (0Ah).......... ............ ............ ................. ............ ................. ........... 5-170
5.47 WRITE (10) Command (2Ah).................... ............ ................................... ........... ........... 5-171
5.48 WRITE AND VERIFY Command (2Eh) ....................................................................... 5-172
5.49 WRITE BUFFER Command (3Bh)....................... ........... ................................... ........... 5-173
5.50 WRITE LONG Command (3Fh)..................... ............ ................. ............ ...................... 5-175
5.51 WRITE SAME Command (41h).......... .................. ........... .................. ........... ................. 5-176
5.52 WRITE SKIP MASK Command (EAh)........................................................................... 5-177
6.1 KEY FEATURES................................................................................................................ 6-1
6.2 PREFETCH........................................................................................................................ 6-2
6.3 WRITE-BACK CACH ING ................................................................................................ 6-3
6.4 ZERO LATENCY READ/WR ITE................................................................................... 6-3
6.5 DISCONNECT-RECONNECT ....................................................................................... 6-3
6.6 TRACK AND CYLINDER SKEW ING ............................................................................ 6-3
6.7 AVERAGE ACCESS TIME....................... ............ ........... .................. ........... ..................... 6-4
6.8 EMBEDDED SERVO SYSTEM.......... ............ ................. ............ ................................... ... 6-4
6.9 DATA INTEGR ITY AND SECURITY ............................................................................ 6-4
6.9.1 Media Error Protection ...............................................................................................6-4
6.9.2 Transfer Error Protection ............................................................................................6-4
6.9.3 Addressing Error Protection ........................................................................................ 6-4
6.9.4 Data Sector Reallocation Error Protection ..................................................................6-5
6.9.5 Data Verification ........................................................................................................6-5
6.10 TAGGED COM MAN D QUEUING .................................................................................. 6-5
6.11 COMMAND REORDERING ........... ................................... ............ ................................ 6-5
6.12 BANDED RECORD ING .................................................................................................. 6-6
6.13 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS..... ........... ............ .................. ........... ................................... ......... 6-6
6.14 POWER MANAGE MEN T ................................................................................................ 6- 6
6.15 DIAGNOSTICS.................................................................................................................. 6-6
6.15.1 P o wer On Self Test (POST) ......................................................................................6-7
6.15.2 P eriodic Self-Adjustments ..........................................................................................6-7
6.15.3 Hos t Diagnostics ........................................................................................................6-7
6.15.4 Log Sense ..................................................................................................................6-8
6.16 ERROR RECOVE RY ...................................................................................................... 6-8
6.16.1 S eek Error Recovery .................................................................................................6-8
6.16.2 D ata Read Errors .......................................................................................................6-8
6.16.3 R eallocation of Bad Blocks ........................................................................................6-8
6.17 SCSI CONFIGURED AUTOMATICALLY (SCAM). ........... .................. ........... ............ ... 6-9
6.18 TH E UL TRA 160 an d ULTRA3 20 L O W VO LTAG E D IF F ERE NTI AL
(LVD) SCSI INTERFACE ................................................................................................... 6-9