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
- 2.13 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. G 29
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 36.for details and
subcommands used in the S.M.A.R.T. implementation.
Table 8 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
Receive FPDMA Queued 65
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