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Travelstar 7K100 Hard Disk Drive Specification
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11.4 Power-off considerations
11.4.1 Load/Unload
Load/Unload is a functional mechanism of the hard disk drive and is controlled by the drive microcode. Specifically,
unloading of the heads is invoked by the following commands.
Load/unload is also invoked as one of the idle modes of the drive
The specified start/stop life of the drive assumes that load/unload is operated normally, NOT in emergency mode.
11.4.2 Emergency unload
When the drive power is interrupted while the heads are still loaded, the microcode cannot operate and the normal
5V power is unavailable to unload the heads. In this case, normal unload is not possible, so the heads are unloaded
by routing the back EMF of the spinning motor to the voice coil. The actuator velocity is greater than the normal
case and the unload process is inherently less controllable without a normal seek current profile.
Emergency unload is intended to be invoked in rare situations. Because this operation is inherently uncontrolled, it
is more mechanically stressful than a normal unload.
A single emergency unload operation is more stressful than 100 normal unloads. Use of emergency unload reduces
the start/stop life of the drive at a rate at least 100 times faster than that of normal unload and may damage the drive.
11.4.3 Required power-off sequence
The following are examples of problems which can occur on most drives when power is removed at an arbitrary
time:
• Data is lost from the write buffer.
• If the drive is writing a sector, a partially written sector with an incorrect ECC block results,
the sector contents are destroyed, and reading that sector results in a hard error.
• Heads may land in the data zone instead of the landing zone depending on the design of the
drive.
Table 49: Device behavior by ATA command
Command
Response
Standby
UL -> Comp.
Standby Immediate
UL -> Comp.
Sleep
UL -> Comp.
Reset
Response
Soft Reset
Rdy (*1)
Hard Reset
UL -> Rdy
UL
= unload
Comp
= complete
Rdy
= interface ready
(*1)
Load/Unload condition is not changed by Soft Reset
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