Datasheet

Travelstar 80GN Hard Disk Drive Specification

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13.4 Flush Cache (E7h)

Table 67: Flush Cache command (E7h)

This command causes the device to complete writing data from its cache.

The device returns a status of RDY = 1 and DSC = 1 (50h) after the following sequence:

• Data in the write cache buffer is written to the disk media.

• Return a successful completion

Command Block Output Registers Command Block Input Registers

Data - - - - - - - - Data - - - - - - - -

Feature - - - - - - - - Error see below

Sector Count - - - - - - - - Sector Count - - - - - - - -

LBA Low - - - - - - - - LBA Low - - - - - - - -

LBA Mid - - - - - - - - LBA Mid - - - - - - - -

LBA High - - - - - - - - LBA High - - - - - - - -

Device 1 - 1 D - - - - Device - - - - - - - -

Command 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 Status see below

Error Register Status Register

7654321 0 76543 21 0

CRC UNC 0 IDN 0 ABT T0N AMN BSY RDY DF DSC DRQ COR IDX ERR

00000V0 0 0V0V- 0- V