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ATA Bus Interface and ATA Commands
5-2 Maxtor D540X-4G
The Maxtor D540X-4G hard disk drives allow their host systems to address the full
set of command and control registers as specified in clause 7 of the ATA/ATAPI-6
standard. This includes the 48-bit Address feature set described in clause 6.
The µProcessor, Disk Controller, and ATA Interface electronics are contained in a
proprietary ASIC developed by Maxtor.
The Maxtor D540X-4G 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-6 standard for a detailed description of these commands.
Table 5-1 lists the supported commands.
Supported Commands
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
IDENTIFY DRIVE ECh
IDLE 97h, E3h
IDLE IMMEDIATE 95h, E1h
NOP 00h
READ BUFFER E4h