Maxtor Computer Drive manual Supported Commands, Command Feature Register Code Values

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands

5.5.2Supported Commands

The DiamondMax 8S 40GB Serial ATA hard disk drives 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, volume 1 standard for a detailed description of these commands. The IDENTIFY DRIVE command, however, is elaborated in Identify Drive Command Parameters, table 5-2.

Table 5-1 lists 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 CASHE EXT	EAh
IDENTIFY DEVICE	ECh
IDLE	97h, E3h
IDLE IMMEDIATE	95h, E1h
INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS	91h
NOP	00h
READ BUFFER	E4h
READ DMA	C8h, C9h
READ LONG	22h, 23h
READ LONG EXT	2Fh
READ MULTIPLE	C4h

Maxtor DiamondMax 8S 40GB SATA 5-2