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Travelstar E7K100 (Serial ATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification
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Table 38: Seek overlap
10.12  Write Cache function
Write cache is a performance enhancement whereby the device reports completion of the write command (Write 
Sector(s) and Write Multiple) to the host as soon as the device has received all of the data in its buffer. The device 
assumes responsibility to write the data subsequently onto the disk.
• Writing data after completed acknowledgment of a write command, soft reset, or COMRESET 
does not affect its operation but power off terminates writing operation immediately and 
unwritten data is lost.
• Flush cache, Soft reset, Standby, Standby Immediate, and Sleep are executed after the comple-
tion of writing to disk media on enabling write cache function. The host system can confirm 
the completion of Write Cache operation by issuing Flush Cache command, Soft reset, Standby 
command, Standby Immediate command, or Sleep command, and then confirming the comple-
tion of the issued command.
10.13  Reassign Function
The Reassign Function is used with read commands and write commands. The sectors of data for reassignment are 
prepared as the spare data sector. The one entry can register 256 consecutive sectors maximum.
This reassignment information is registered internally, and the information is available right after completing the 
reassign function. Also the information is used on the next power on reset or hard reset.
If the number of the spare sector reaches 0 sector, the reassign function will be disabled automatically.
The spare tracks for reassignment are located at regular intervals from Cylinder 0. As a result of reassignment, the 
physical location of logically sequenced sectors is dispersed.
(1) With overlap
(2) Without overlap
Host process
Host process
Device process
Device process
Seek operation
Seek operation
Overhead
Overhead
A
A
B+A
B
B+A
B
Total time = (n-1) * (Seek operation) + A + B
Total time = n * (Seek operation + A + B)