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Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 35
4.3.1 Identify Device command
The Identify Device command (command code EC
H
) transfers information
about the drive to the host following power up. The data is organized as a sin-
gle 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in the table on page
27. All reserved bits or words should be set to zero. Parameters listed with an
“x” are drive-specific or vary with the state of the drive. See Section 2.0 on
page 5 for default parameter settings.
The following commands contain drive-specific features that may not be
included in the Serial ATA specification.