SATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands

proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.

5.5.2Supported Commands

The Maxtor QuickView Serial ATA 400/500GB hard disk drive support all the mandatory commands from the general feature set for devices not supporting the Packet command feature set. Refer to the ATA/ATAPI-7 standard for a detailed description of these commands. The IDENTIFY DRIVE command, however, is elaborated in the section “Identify Drive Command” on page 5-5

Note: 1. As defined in the ATA/ATAPI-7 standard.

Table 5-1lists the supported commands.

Table 5-1Supported Commands

 

Command

Feature

Command

Register

Code

 

Value(s)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHECK POWER MODE

98h, E5h

 

 

 

 

DEVICE CONFIGURATION FREEZE LOCK

B1h

C1h

 

 

 

DEVICE CONFIGURATION IDENTIFY

B1h

C2h

 

 

 

DEVICE CONFIGURATION RESTORE

B1h

C0h

 

 

 

DEVICE CONFIGURATION SET

B1h

C3h

 

 

 

DOWNLOAD MICROCODE

92h

07h, 01h

 

 

 

EXECUTE DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC

90h

 

 

 

 

FLUSH CACHE

E7h

 

 

 

 

FLUSH CACHE EXTENSION

EAh

 

 

 

 

IDENTIFY DEVICE

ECh

 

 

 

 

IDLE

97h, E3h

 

 

 

 

IDLE IMMEDIATE

95h, E1h

 

 

 

 

NOP

00h

 

 

 

 

READ BUFFER

E4h

 

 

 

 

READ DMA

C8h, C9h

 

 

 

 

READ DMA EXTENSION

25h

 

 

 

 

READ FPDMA QUEUED

60h

 

 

 

 

5-2 Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive