INTERFACECOMMANDS

Set Feature Commands

Set Features Mode

Enables or disables features supported by the drive. When the drive receives this command it:

1.Sets BSY,

2.Checks the contents of the Features register,

3.Clears BSY and

4.Generates an interrupt.

If the value of the register is not a feature supported by the drive, the command is aborted. The acceptable values in the Features register are defined as follows:

VALUE

DESCRIPTION

02h*

Enabled write cache

 

 

03h

Set transfer mode based on value in Sector Count register

44h

Length of data appended on Read Long/Write Long commands specified in the

 

Identify Device information

 

 

55h

Disable read look-ahead feature

 

 

66h*

Disable reverting to power-on defaults

 

 

82h

Disable write cache

 

 

AAh*

Enable read look-ahead feature

BBh*

4 bytes of Maxtor specific data appended on Read Long/Write Long commands

 

 

CCh

Enable reverting to power-on defaults

* Enabled at power up by default.

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Maxtor 4320 manual Set Feature Commands, Set Features Mode, Value Description

4320 specifications

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