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Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B

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Serial ATA (SATA) Interface

4.3.1 Identify Device command

The Identify Device command (command code EC

H

) transfers information about the drive to the host following

power up. The data is organized as a single 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in on page 32. 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.

The following commands contain drive-specific features that may not be included in the Serial ATA specification.

Word

Description

Value

0

Configuration information:

• Bit 15: 0 = ATA; 1 = ATAPI

• Bit 7: removable media

• Bit 6: removable controller

• Bit 0: reserved

0C5A

H

1

Number of logical cylinders

16,383

2

ATA-reserved

0000

H

3

Number of logical heads

16

4

Retired

0000

H

5

Retired

0000

H

6

Number of logical sectors per logical track: 63

003F

H

7–9

Retired

0000

H

10–19

Serial number: (20 ASCII characters, 0000

H

= none)

ASCII

20

Retired

0000

H

21

Retired

0400

H

22

Obsolete

0000

H

23–26

Firmware revision

(8 ASCII character string, padded with blanks to end
of string)

x.xx

27–46

Drive model number:

(40 ASCII characters, padded with blanks to end of
string)

47

(Bits 7–0) Maximum sectors per interrupt on Read
multiple and Write multiple (16)

8010

H

48

Reserved

0000

H

49

Standard Standby timer, IORDY supported and may
be disabled

2F00

H

50

ATA-reserved

0000

H

51

PIO data-transfer cycle timing mode

0200

H

52

Retired

0200

H

53

Words 54–58, 64–70 and 88 are valid

0007

H

54

Number of current logical cylinders

xxxx

H

55

Number of current logical heads

xxxx

H

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