4 medium access command time, 5 time-out limits for other commands – Hitachi ULTRASTAR 15K450 HUS154530VLF400 User Manual

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Hitachi Ultrastar 15K450 (FC-AL) Hard Disk Drive Specification

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21.20.4 Medium Access Command Time

The time-out limit for medium access commands that transfer user data or non-user data or both should be a minimum of 30
seconds. These commands are

Pre-Fetch

Read

Read Defect Data

Seek

Send Diagnostic (Function Code = 0)

Read Long

Reassign Blocks

Write

Write and Verify

Write Buffer

Write Same

Verify

Note:

The 30-second limit assumes the absence of bus contention and data transfers of 64 blocks or less. This time should

be adjusted for anticipated bus contention and if longer user data transfers are requested.

21.20.5 Time-out Limits for Other Commands

The drive should be allowed a minimum of 5 seconds to complete these commands:

Inquiry

Log Select

Log Sense

Mode Select

Mode Sense

Persistent Reserve In/Out

Read Buffer

Read Capacity

Read Long

Release

Request Sense

Reserve

Set/Report Device Identifier

Start/Stop Unit (with Immed bit = 1)

Synchronize Cache

Test Unit Ready

Writer Long

The command time-out for a command that is not located at the head of the command queue should be increased by the sum of
command time-outs for all of the commands that are performed before it is.

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