Travelstar 5K100 Hard Disk Drive Specification
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8.0 General
8.1 Introduction
This specification describes the host interface of the Travelstar 5K100.
The interface conforms to the Working Document of Information technology, AT Attachment with Packet Interface
Extension (ATA/ATAPI-6) Revision 2, dated 2 August 2001, with certain limitations described in Section 9.0,
“Deviations from standard” on page 61.
The drive supports the following functions as Vendor Specific Functions:
• Address Offset Feature
• Format Unit Function
• SENSE CONDITION command
8.2 Terminology
Device The Travelstar 5K100 drive
Host Host indicates the system that the device is attached to.
First Command The first command which is executed after the power on reset (also known as a
hard reset) is the Standby mode command.
INTRQ Interrupt request (Device or Host)