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11advanced power management – FUJITSU MHT2060AT User Manual

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Device Overview

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Emergency Unload other than Normal Unload is performed when the power is
shut down while the heads are still loaded on the disk.
The product supports the Emergency Unload a minimum of 20,000 times.
When the power is shut down, the controlled Normal Unload cannot be executed.
Therefore, the number of Emergency other than Normal Unload is specified.

Remark:

We recommend cutting the power supply of the HDD for this device after the
Head Unload operation completes. The recommended power supply cutting
sequence for this device is as follows:

1)

Disk Flush

Flush Cache command execution.

2)

Head Unload

Standby Immediate command execution.

3)

Wait Status

Checking whether bit 7 of the status register was set to '0'.
(wait to complete STANDBY IMMEDIATE command)

4)

HDD power supply cutting

1.11Advanced Power Management

The disk drive shifts to the three kinds of APM modes automatically under the
Idle condition.

The APM mode can be chosen with a Sector Count register of the
SETFEATURES(EF) command.

In APM Mode-1, which is the APM default mode, the operation status shifts till it
finally reaches "Low Power Idle."

The disk drive complies with the three kinds of APM modes that a command
from the host is required.

FR = 05h : Enable APM

SC = C0h - FEh :

Mode-0 Active Idle

Low Power Idle

SC = 80h - BFh :

Mode-1 Active Idle

Low Power Idle (Default)

SC = 01h - 7Fh :

Mode-2 Active Idle

Low Power Idle

Standby

FR = 85h : Reset APM (return to Default.)

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