Hitachi 100GB 7200 RPM HTE721010G9SA00 User Manual

Travelstar E7K100 (Serial ATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification

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This specification describes the host interface of the Travelstar E7K100 hard disk drive.

The interface conforms to the Working Document of Information technology with certain limitations described in 
8.0, "Deviations From Standard."

- Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachement Revision 1.0a dated on 7 January 2003

- Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Revision 1.2 dated on 27 August 2004

- AT Attachment with Packet Interface Extension (ATA/ATAPI-7) Revision 4b dated on 21 April 2004

HTE7210XXG9SA00 support the following functions as Vendor Specific Function:

• Format Unit Function
• Sense Condition Command

The device conforms to the referenced specifications with the following deviations described below. 

The interface conforms to the Working Document of Information Technology, AT Attachment with Packet Interface 
Extension (ATA/ATAPI-7) Revision 4b dated 21 April 2004, with deviation as follows. 

Write Verify WRITE VERIFY command does not include read verification after write operation. The 
function is exactly same as WRITE SECTORS command.

S.M.A.R.T. Return StatusS.M.A.R.T. RETURN STATUS subcommand does not check advisory 
attributes. That is, the device will not report threshold exceeded condition unless prefailure attributes exceed 
their corresponding thresholds. For example, Power-On Hours Attribute never results in negative reliability 
status.

Check Power Mode Check Power Mode command returns FFh to Sector Count Register when the device 
is in Idle mode. This command does not support 80h as the return value.

 

Device indicates HTE7210XXG9SA00

Host indicates the system that the device is attached to.

Interrupt request (Device or Host)