ATA COMMAND BLOCK AND SET DESCRIPTION

SSD-HXXX(I)-3500 DATA SHEET

Identify Drive — Drive Attribute Data

Table 36: Identify Drive — Drive Attribute Data

Word

Data Default

Bytes

Data Description

Address

 

 

 

 

0

045Ah

2

General configuration bit information

 

 

 

• 15: Non-magnetic disk

 

 

 

• 14: Formatting speed latency

 

 

 

permissible gap needed

 

 

 

• 13: Track Offset option supported

 

 

 

• 12: Data Strobe Offset option supported

 

 

 

• 11: Over 0.5% rotational speed

 

 

 

difference

 

 

 

• 10: Disk transfer rate >10Mbps

 

 

 

• 9: 10Mbps >= disk transfer rate >5Mbps

 

 

 

• 8: 5Mbps >= disk transfer rate

 

 

 

• 7: Removable cartridge drive

 

 

 

• 6: Fixed drive

 

 

 

• 5: Spindle Motor Control option

 

 

 

executed

 

 

 

• 4: Over 15μs changing head time

 

 

 

• 3: Non-MFM encoding

 

 

 

• 2: Soft sector allocation

 

 

 

• 1: Hard sector allocation

 

 

 

• 0: Reserved

 

 

 

 

1

XXXXh

2

Number of cylinders

 

 

 

 

2

0000h

2

Reserved

 

 

 

 

3

00XXh

2

Number of heads

 

 

 

 

4

0000h

2

Number of unformatted bytes per track

 

 

 

 

5

XXXXh

2

Number of unformatted bytes per sector

6

XXXXh

2

Number of sectors per track

 

 

 

 

7-8

XXXXh

4

Number of sectors per device

 

 

 

 

9

0000h

2

Reserved

 

 

 

 

10-19

XXXXh

20

Serial number

 

 

 

 

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