Word Description Contents
20 Controller type = dual-port multisector buffer
with caching (not used) 0000H
21 Buffer size (not used) 0000H
22 Number of ECC bytes available (4) 0004H
23–26 Firmware revision (8 ASCII character string): x.xx
27–46 Drive model number: (40 ASCII characters,
padded with blanks to end of string)
ST33240A
or
ST32531A
47 (Bits 0–7) Maximum sectors per interrupt on
read/write multiple (16) 8010H
48 Double word I/O (not supported) 0000H
49 DMA data transfer, IORDY (supported), LBA
mode, ATA-2 standby times supported 0F01H
50 ATA-reserved 0000H
51 PIO data-transfer cycle timing mode 0100H
52 DMA transfer cycle timing mode 0200H
53 Validity of words 54–58 and words 64–70
(words may be valid) 0003H
54 Number of cylinders (current emulation mode)
xxxx
H
55 Number of heads
(current emulation mode)
xxxx
H
56 Number of sectors per track
(current emulation mode)
xxxx
H
57–58 Number of sectors (current emulation m ode)
xxxx
H
59 Number of sectors transferred dur ing a Read
Multiple or Write Multiple comm and 01
xx
H
60
LBA sectors available (w/word 61):
6,303,024 (ST33240A)
4,995,648 (ST32531A)
2D30H
(ST33240A)
3D4CH
(ST32531A)
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