
9.11 Sector Count Register ........................................... 53
9.12 Sector Number Register .......................................... 53
9.13 Status Register ................................................ 53
10.0 General Operation Descriptions ...................................... 55
10.1 Reset Response ............................................... 55
10.1.1 Register Initialization ......................................... 57
10.2 Diagnostic and Reset considerations ................................... 58
10.3 Sector Addressing Mode .......................................... 59
10.3.1 Logical CHS Addressing Mode ................................... 59
10.3.2 LBA Addressing Mode ........................................ 59
10.4 Power Management Feature ........................................ 60
10.4.1 Power Mode .............................................. 60
10.4.2 Power Management Commands ................................... 60
10.4.3 Standby/Sleep command completion timing ............................ 60
10.4.4 Standby timer ............................................. 61
10.4.5 Status .................................................. 61
10.4.6 Interface Capability for Power Modes ................................ 61
10.4.7 Initial Power Mode at Power On .................................. 61
10.5 Adaptive Power Management Feature .................................. 62
10.5.1 Performance Idle mode ........................................ 62
10.5.2 Low Power (LP) Idle mode ..................................... 62
10.5.3 Transition Time ............................................ 62
10.6 S.M.A.R.T. Function ............................................ 63
10.6.1 Attributes ................................................ 63
10.6.2 Attribute values ............................................ 63
10.6.3 Attribute thresholds .......................................... 63
10.6.4 Threshold exceeded condition .................................... 63
10.6.5 S.M.A.R.T. commands ........................................ 63
10.6.6 S.M.A.R.T. operation with power management modes ...................... 64
10.7 Security Mode Feature Set ......................................... 65
10.7.1 Security mode ............................................. 65
10.7.2 Security level .............................................. 65
10.7.3 Password ................................................ 65
10.7.4 Operation example ........................................... 66
10.7.5 Command Table ............................................ 69
10.8 Protected Area Function (Vendor Specific) ............................... 71
10.8.1 Example for operation (In LBA mode) ............................... 71
10.9 Write Cache Function ........................................... 72
10.10 Reassign Function ............................................. 73
10.10.1 Auto Reassign Function ....................................... 73
11.0 Command Protocol ............................................. 75
11.1 Data In Commands ............................................. 75
11.2 Data Out Commands ............................................ 76
11.3 Non-Data Commands ............................................ 78
11.4 DMA Data Transfer Commands ..................................... 79
12.0 Command Descriptions ........................................... 81
12.1 Check Power Mode (E5h/98h) ...................................... 85
12.2 Execute Device Diagnostic (90h) ..................................... 86
12.3 Format Track (50h: Vendor Specific) ................................... 87
12.4 Format Unit (F7h: Vendor Specific) ................................... 90
12.5 Identify Device (ECh) ........................................... 92
12.6 Identify Device DMA (EEh) ........................................ 96
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