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Seagate Barracuda ST318418N User Manual

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Barracuda 36ES2 Product Manual, Rev. B

[1]

The drive can format to any even number of bytes per sector from 512 to 4,096.

[2]

Tables 8 and 9 show how individual bits are set and which are changeable by the host.

[3]

WARNING: A power loss during flash programming can result in firmware corruption. This usually makes
the drive inoperable.

Rezero unit

01h

Y

Search data equal

31h

N

Search data high

30h

N

Search data low

32h

N

Seek

0Bh

Y

Seek extended

2Bh

Y

Send diagnostics

1Dh

Y

Supported diagnostics pages (00h)

Y

Translate page (40h)

Y

DST (logical unit self-test diagnostics)

Y

Set limits

33h

N

Start unit/stop unit (spindle ceases rotating) (1Ch)

1Bh

Y

Synchronize cache

35h

Y

Test unit ready

00h

Y

Verify

2Fh

Y

DPO bit supported

Y

BYTCHK bit

Y

Write

0Ah

Y

Write and verify

2Eh

Y

DPO bit

Y

BYTCHK bit

Y

Write buffer (modes 0, 2, supported)

3Bh

Y

Firmware download option
(modes 5, 7, Ah and Bh supported) [3]

Y

Write extended

2Ah

Y

DPO bit

Y

FUA bit

Y

Write long

3Fh

Y

Write same

41h

Y

PBdata

N

LBdata

N

XDRead

52h

N

XDWrite

50h

N

XDWrite extended

80h

N

XPWrite

51h

N

Table 5:

Commands supported by Barracuda 36ES2 family drives (Continued)

Command name

Command
code

Supported by
SCSI-2/3

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