Technical data

ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands

5-2 DiamondMax 10 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB Serial ATA

5.5 COMMAND INTERFACE

5.5.1 General Feature Set

The µProcessor, Disk Controller, and ATA Interface electronics are contained in a

proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.

5.5.2 Supported Commands

The Maxtor DiamondMax 10 Serial ATA 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-7 standard for a detailed description

of these commands. The IDENTIFY DRIVE command, however, is elaborated in

the section "Identify Drive Command" on page 5.

Table 5-1 lists the supported commands.

Table 5-1 Supported Commands

Command

Code

Feature

Va l ue ( s )

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

FLUSH CACHE EXTENSION EAh

IDENTIFY DEVICE ECh

IDLE 97h, E3h

IDLE IMMEDIATE 95h, E1h

NOP 00h

READ BUFFER E4h

READ DMA C8h, C9h

READ DMA EXTENSION 25h