Hitachi hard disk drive specifications 
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11.26   Read Stream PIO (2Bh) 
 
Command Block Output Registers 
Command Block Input Registers 
 
Table 120    Read Stream PIO Command (2Bh) 
 
The Read Stream DMA command reads one to 65536 sectors as specified in the Sector Count register.    A 
value of 0000h in the Sector Count register requests 65536 sectors. 
The RC bit indicates that the drive operate in a continuous read mode for the Read Stream command. When RC 
is cleared to zero the drive shall operate in normal Streaming read mode. 
When the Read Continuous mode is enabled, the device shall transfer data of the requested length without 
setting the ERR bit.    The SE bit shall be set to one if the data transferred includes errors. The data may be 
erroneous in this case.     
If the Read Continuous bit is set to one, the device shall not stop execution of the command due to errors.    If 
the RC bit is set to one and errors occur in reading or transfer of the data, the device shall continue to transfer 
the amount of data requested and then provide ending status with the BSY bit cleared to zero, the SE bit set to 
one, the ERR bit cleared to zero, and the type of error, ICRC,UNC,IDNF, or ABRT, reported in the error log.    If 
the RC bit is set to one and the Command Completion Time Limit expires, the device shall stop execution of the 
command and provide ending status with BSY bit cleared to zero, the SE bit set to one, the ERR bit cleared to 
zero, and report the fact that the Command Completion Time Limit expired by setting the CCTO bit in the error 
log to one,    In all cases, the device shall attempt to transfer the amount of data requested within the Command 
Completion Time Limit event if some data transferred is in error.