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Western Digital Hard Disk Drive OEM Specification
11.63 Write FPDMA Queued (61h)
Command Block Output Registers
Command Block Input Registers
Table 254 Write FPDMA Queued Command (61h)
The Write FPDMA Queued command transfers one or more sectors of data from the host to the device, and then the
data is written to the disk media.
If an unrecoverable error occurs, the write will be terminated at the failing sector
Output Parameters To The Device
The number of sectors to be transferred low order, bits (7:0).
The number of sectors to be transferred high order, bits (15:8).
The TAG value shall be assigned to be different from all other queued commands.
The value shall not exceed the maximum queue depth specified by the Word 75 of
the Identify Device information.
The Priority (PRIO) value shall be assigned by the host based on the priority of the
command issued. The device makes a best effort to complete High priority requests
in a more timely fashion than Normal and isochronous priority requests. The device
tries to complete isochronous requests prior to its associated deadline. The Priority
values are defined as follows:
00b Normal priority
01b Isochronous – deadline dependent priority
10b High priority