Deskstar 7K500 and Deskstar E7K500 Hard Disk Drive Specification
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12.53  Write Sector(s) Ext (34h)
Table 172: Write Sector(s) Command  (34h)
The Write Sectors command transfers one or more sectors from the host to the device; the data is then written to the 
disk media.
The sectors are transferred through the Data Register 16 bits at a time.
If an uncorrectable error occurs, the write will be terminated at the failing sector.
Output parameters to the device
Sector Count Current The number of continuous sectors to be transferred low order, bits (7:0)
Sector Count Previous The number of continuous sectors to be transferred high order, bits (15:8).  If zero 
is specified, 65,536 sectors shall be transferred.
Sector Number Current LBA (7:0)
Sector Number Previous LBA (31:24)
Cylinder Low Current LBA (15:8)
Cylinder Low Previous LBA (39:32)
Cylinder High Current LBA (23:16)
Cylinder High Previous LBA (47:40)
Command Block Output Registers Command Block Input Registers
Register 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Register 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Data Low - - - - - - - - Data Low - - - - - - - -
Data High - - - - - - - - Data High - - - - - - - -
Feature Current - - - - - - - - Error 
See below
Previous - - - - - - - -
Sector 
Count
Current V V V V V V V V Sector 
Count
HOB=0 - - - - - - - -
Previous V V V V V V V V HOB=1 - - - - - - - -
Sector 
Number
Current V V V V V V V V Sector 
Number
HOB=0 V V V V V V V V
Previous V V V V V V V V HOB=1 V V V V V V V V
Cylinder 
Low
Current V V V V V V V V Cylinder 
Low
HOB=0 V V V V V V V V
Previous V V V V V V V V HOB=1 V V V V V V V V
Cylinder
High
Current V V V V V V V V Cylinder
High
HOB=0 V V V V V V V V
Previous V V V V V V V V HOB=1 V V V V V V V V
Device/Head - 1 - D - - - - Device/Head - - - - - - - -
Command 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 Status See below ...
Error Register Status Register
7654321 0 76543 21 0
CRC UNC 0 IDN 0 ABT T0N AMN BSY RDY DF DSC DRQ COR IDX ERR
000V0V0 0 0V0V- 0- V