Marathon 2250 and Marathon 1680 Product Manual

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3.2 ATA Interface commands

3.2.1Supported ATA commands

The following table lists supported ATA-standard and Seagate-specific drive commands. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Draft Proposed ATA-3 Standard. See Section 3.2.4 on page 33 for details and subcommands used in the S.M.A.R.T. implementation.

 

Command

Supported by

 

Marathon 2250

Command name

code

and Marathon 1680

 

 

 

 

 

ATA-standard commands

 

 

 

Execute Drive Diagnostics

90H

Yes

 

 

 

Format Track

50H

Yes

 

 

 

Identify Drive

ECH

Yes

 

 

 

Initialize Drive Parameters

91H

Yes

 

 

 

NOP

00H

No

 

 

 

Read Buffer

E4H

Yes

 

 

 

Read DMA (w/retry)

C8H

Yes

 

 

 

Read DMA (no retry)

C9H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Long (w/retry)

22H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Long (no retry)

23H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Multiple

C4H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Sectors (w/retry)

20H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Sectors (no retry)

21H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Verify Sectors (w/retry)

40H

Yes

 

 

 

Read Verify Sectors (no retry)

41H

Yes

 

 

 

Recalibrate

10H

Yes

 

 

 

Seek

70H

Yes

 

 

 

Set Features

EFH

Yes

 

 

 

Set Multiple Mode

C6H

Yes

 

 

 

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Seagate 1680, 2250 manual ATA Interface commands Supported ATA commands, C4H

2250, 1680 specifications

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