Seagate STT8000A - Manual (Page 40)

Chapter 5 ATAPI Interface
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ATA registers
The following table lists the values for the registers during register initialization.
Register POR RESET–
(Hard Reset)
ATA Reset
(SRST Bit) ATAPI Soft
Reset Read/Identify
Device Cmds
STATUS 00h 00h 00h 10h 41h
(DRDY+ERR)
ERROR 01h
(No
Error) 01h 01h 01h 04h
(ABRT)
Sector Count
(ATAPI Intr.
Reason) 01h 01h 01h 01h —
Sector Num.
(ATAPI
Reserved) 01h 01h 01h 01h —
Cylinder Low
(ATAPI Byte
Count High) 14h 14h 14h 14h 14h
Cylinder High
(ATAPI Byte
Count High) EBh EBh EBh EBh EBh
Drive/Head 00 00 00 — —
During an ATA soft reset or aborted ATA command, the host view of the DSC bit (Status
register) will be cleared, along with the DRDY bit. Any ATAPI command including ATAPI
Identify) can be used to set DRDY true and to re-enable host view of DSC bit.
Status Register
The following layout represents the Status Register. The CORR and IDX bits are not
used by the drive.
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
BSY DRDY -
(0)
DSC DRQ CORR
(0)
IDX
(0)
CHECK
Bit Mnemonic Description
7 BSY Busy—set when only drive has access to ATA registers.
6 DRDY Drive Ready—set when DSC is valid.
4 DSC Drive Seek Complete—set when drive ready for command.
3 DRQ Data Request—set when data ready to be transferred.
0 CHECK Check—set when an error has occurred.