Travelstar 5K160 (PATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification
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14.31 Security Unlock (F2h)
Command Block Output Registers
Command Block Input Registers
Register
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Register
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Data
- - - -
-
-
-
- Data
- - - - - -
-
-
Feature
- - - -
-
-
-
- Error
...See
Below...
Sector
Count
- - - -
-
-
-
- Sector
Count
- - - - - -
-
-
LBA
Low
- - - -
-
-
-
- LBA
Low
- - - - - -
-
-
LBA
Mid
- - - -
-
-
-
- LBA
Mid
- - - - - -
-
-
LBA
High
- - - -
-
-
-
- LBA
High
- - - - - -
-
-
Device
- - - D -
-
-
- Device
- - - - - -
-
-
Command
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 Status
...See
Below...
Error Register
Status Register
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
CRC UNC 0
IDN
0 ABT T0N
AM
N
BSY RDY
DF DSC DRQ
COR IDX
ERR
0 V 0 0 0 V 0 0
0 V 0 - - 0 - V
Figure 94 Security Unlock Command (F2h)
This command unlocks the password and causes the device to enter device unlock mode. If power on reset or hard
reset is done without executing the Security Disable Password command after this command is completed, the
device will be in device lock mode. The password has not been changed yet.
The Security Unlock command requests to transfer a single sector of data from the host including information
specified in the following figure.
If the Identifier bit is set to master and the file is in high security mode then the password supplied will be compared
with the stored master password. If the file is in maximum security mode then the security unlock will be rejected.
If the Identifier bit is set to user, then the file compares the supplied password with the stored user password.
If the password compare fails then the device returns an abort error to the host and decrements the unlock attempt
counter. This counter is initially set to 5 and is decremented for each password mismatch. When this counter reaches
zero then all password protected commands are rejected until a hard reset or a power off.
Word Description
00 Control
word
bit 0
: Identifier (1-Mater, 0-User)
bit 1-15
: Reserved
01-16 Password
(32
bytes)
17-255 Reserved
Figure 95 Security Unlock Information
Identifier
Zero indicates that device regards Password as User Password. One indicates that device
regards Password as Master Password.
The user can detect if the attempt to unlock the device has failed due to a mismatched password as this is the only
reason that an abort error will be returned by the file AFTER the password information has been sent to the device.
If an abort error is returned by the device BEFORE the password data has been sent to the file then another problem
exists.