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SATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
5-2 Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive
proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.
5.5.2 Supported Commands
The Maxtor QuickView Serial ATA 400/500GB hard disk drive 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 5-5
Note: 1. As defined in the ATA/ATAPI-7 standard.
Table 5-1 lists the supported commands.
Table 5-1 Supported Commands
Command
Command
Code
Feature
Register
Value(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
READ FPDMA QUEUED 60h