ATA COMMAND BLOCK AND SET DESCRIPTION

SSD-DXXX(I)-3600 DATA SHEET

Identify Drive — ECh

Issued by the host, the Identify Drive command provides 256 bytes of drive attribute data (i.e., sector size, count, and so on) The identify drive data structure is detailed in the following table.

Table 34: Identify Drive — ECh

Register

D7

D6

D5

D4

 

D3

D2

 

D1

D0

Feature

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sector Count

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sector Number

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cylinder Low

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cylinder High

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drive Head

X

X

X

Drive

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Command

 

 

 

ECh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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