4 register address decoding, 5 command interface, 1 general feature set – Maxtor D540X-4G User Manual

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ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands

5-2

Maxtor D540X-4G



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The Maxtor D540X-4G hard disk drives allow their host systems to address the full
set of command and control registers as specified in clause 7 of the ATA/ATAPI-6
standard. This includes the 48-bit Address feature set described in clause 6.



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)GPGTCN (GCVWTG 5GV

The µProcessor, Disk Controller, and ATA Interface electronics are contained in a
proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.



5WRRQTVGF %QOOCPFU

The Maxtor D540X-4G 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-6 standard for a detailed description of these commands.

Table 5-1 lists the supported commands.

6CDNG  

Supported Commands

%QOOCPF

%QOOCPF

%QFG

(GCVWTG

4GIKUVGT

8CNWG U

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

IDENTIFY DRIVE

ECh

IDLE

97h, E3h

IDLE IMMEDIATE

95h, E1h

NOP

00h

READ BUFFER

E4h

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