Mode set/check commands – Maxtor DIAMONDMAX 91536H2 User Manual

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INTERFACE COMMANDS

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Mode Set/Check Commands

Set Features Mode

Enables or disables features supported by the drive. When the drive receives this command it:

1. Sets BSY,
2. Checks the contents of the Features register,
3. Clears BSY and
4. Generates an interrupt.

If the value of the register is not a feature supported by the drive, the command is aborted.
The acceptable values in the Features register are defined as follows:

VALUE

DESCRIPTION

0 2 h

Enabled Write Cache

0 3 h

Set Transfer Mode based on value in Sector Count register

0 5 h

Enable Advanced Power Management

4 2 h

Enable Automatic Acoustic Management. The sector count register contains the
Automatic Acoustic Management level.

S E C T O R

LEVEL

F F h

Maxtor specific

FEh

Maximum performance

8 1 h - F D h

Intermediate acoustic management levels

8 0 h

Minimum acoustic emanation level

00h-7Fh

reserved

4 4 h

Length of data appended on Read Long/Write Long commands specified in the
Identify Device information

5 5 h

Disable Read Look-ahead feature

6 6 h

Disable reverting to Power-on defaults

8 2 h

Disable Write Cache

8 5 h

Disable Advanced Power Management

A A h

Enable Read Look-ahead feature

B B h

4 bytes of Maxtor specific data appended on Read Long/Write Long commands

C2h

Disable Automatic Acoustic Management

C C h

Enable reverting to Power-on defaults

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