User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD
- Seagate® Technology Support Services
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Drive specifications
- 2.1 Specification summary tables
- 2.2 Formatted capacity
- 2.3 Recording and interface technology
- 2.4 Start/stop times
- 2.5 Power specifications
- 2.6 Environmental limits
- 2.7 Acoustics
- 2.8 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs)
- 2.9 Electromagnetic immunity
- 2.10 Reliability
- 2.11 Agency and Safety Certifications
- 2.12 Environmental protection
- 2.14 Corrosive environment
- 2.14 Reference documents
- 2.15 Product warranty
- 3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive
- 4.0 About self-encrypting drives
- 4.1 Data encryption
- 4.2 Controlled access
- 4.3 Random number generator (RNG)
- 4.4 Drive locking
- 4.5 Data bands
- 4.6 Cryptographic erase
- 4.7 Authenticated firmware download
- 4.8 Power requirements
- 4.9 Supported commands
- 4.10 RevertSP
- 4.11 ATA Security Erase Unit Command on SED SATA drives
- 4.12 Sanitize Device - CRYPTO SCRAMBLE EXT
- 5.0 About FIPS
- 6.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v5 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. E 33
6.3 Supported ATA commands
The following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands,
refer to the Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment specification. See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on page 39.for details and
subcommands used in the S.M.A.R.T. implementation.
Table 10 Supported ATA commands
Command name Command code (in hex)
Accessible Max Address Configuration
Get Native Max Address Ext 78
H
/ 0000
H
Set Accessible Max Address Ext 78
H
/ 0001
H
Freeze Accessible Max Address Ext 78
H
/ 0002
H
Check Power Mode E5
H
Download Microcode 92
H
Execute Device Diagnostics 90
H
Flush Cache E7
H
Flush Cache Extended EA
H
Identify Device EC
H
Idle E3
H
Idle Immediate E1
H
NoP 00
H
Read Buffer E4
H
Read Buffer DMA E9
H
Read DMA C8
H
Read DMA Extended 25
H
Read FPDMA Queued 60
H
Read Log DMA Ext 47
H
Read Log Ext 2F
H
Read Multiple C4
H
Read Multiple Extended 29
H
Read Sectors 20
H
Read Sectors Extended 24
H
Read Sectors Without Retries 21
H
Read Verify Sectors 40
H
Read Verify Sectors Extended 42
H
Read Verify Sectors Without Retries 41
H
Request Sense Data Ext 0B
H
Sanitize Device - Overwrite Ext B4
H
/ 0014
H
Sanitize Device - Freeze Lock Ext B4
H
/ 0020
H
Sanitize Device - Status Ext B4
H
/ 0000
H
Security Disable Password F6
H
Security Erase Prepare F3
H
Security Erase Unit F4
H
Security Freeze F5
H
Security Set Password F1
H
Security Unlock F2
H