Datasheet

Intel® Solid-State Drive 525 Series

December 2012 Product Specification

Order Number: 328354-001US

5.0 Supported Command Sets

The Intel SSD 525 Series supports all mandatory Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) and Serial

ATA (SATA) commands defined in the ACS-2 and SATA Revision 3.0 specifications. The mandatory and

optional commands are defined in this section.

5.1 ATA General Feature Command Set

General Feature command set (non-PACKET), which consists of:

• EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC

• FLUSH CACHE

• IDENTIFY DEVICE

Note: See the Appendix for details on the sector data returned after issuing an IDENTIFY DEVICE command.

• READ DMA

• READ SECTOR(S)

• READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)

• SEEK

• SET FEATURES

• WRITE DMA

• WRITE SECTOR(S)

• READ MULTIPLE

• SET MULTIPLE MODE

• WRITE MULTIPLE

The Intel SSD 525 Series also supports the following optional commands:

• READ BUFFFER

• WRITE BUFFER

• NOP

• DOWNLOAD MICROCODE

5.2 Power Management

The Intel SSD 525 Series supports several power management feature sets as defined by the ATA

specification: general Power Management feature set, Advanced Power Management feature set, and

Power-Up In Standby (PUIS) feature set.

The Advanced Power Management and PUIS features can be enabled or disabled using the SET

FEATURES command.

The Power Management feature set includes the following commands:

• CHECK POWER MODE

• IDLE

• IDLE IMMEDIATE

• SLEEP

• STANDBY

• STANDBY IMMEDIATE