The following commands contain drive-specific features or are not de-
scribed in the
Draft Proposed ATA-2 Standard.
3.2.2
Identify Drive command
The Identify Drive command (command code EC
H
) transfers information
about the drive to the host after power up. The data is organized as a
single 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in the table
below. All reserved bits or words should be set to zero. Parameters listed
with an “
x” are drive-specific or vary with the state of the drive. See
Section 1 of this manual for default parameter settings for the ST9816AG.
Word
Description
ST9816AG
0
Configuration information:
•
Bit 10: disc transfer
>
10 Mbits/sec
•
Bit 6: fixed drive
•
Bit 4: head switch time > 15
µ
sec
•
Bit 3: not MFM encoded
•
Bit 1: hard-sectored disc
045A
H
1
Number of fixed cylinders
(default logical emulation): 1,571
0623
H
2
ATA reserved
0000
H
3
Number of heads (default logical emulation): 16
0010
H
4
Number of unformatted bytes per track (36,240)
8D90
H
5
Number of unformatted bytes per sector (584)
248
H
6
Number of sectors per track
(default logical emulation): 63
003F
H
7–9
ATA reserved
0000
H
10–19
Serial Number:
(20 ASCII characters, 0000
H
= none)
ASCII
20
Controller type (dual-port multisector buffer
with caching)
0003
H
21
Buffer size (240 sectors of 512 bytes each)
00F0
H
22
Number of ECC bytes available (16)
0010
H
23–26
Firmware revision (8 ASCII character string):
xx = ROM version, ss = RAM version, tt = RAM
version
xx.ss.tt
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