ISO/IEC 17760-105:2024

International
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ISO/IEC 17760-105
First
Information technology — AT
edition
Attachment —
2024-03
Part 105:
ATA Command Set - 5 (ACS-5)
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Contents
Page
Contents.i
Tables . xii
Figures .xx
Foreword. xxi
Introduction . xxiv
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 2
3 Definitions, abbreviations, and conventions . 3
3.1 Definitions . 3
3.2 Symbols and abbreviations . 9
3.2.1 Abbreviations . 9
3.2.2 Units . 11
3.2.3 Symbols . 11
3.2.4 Mathematical operators . 11
3.3 Keywords . 11
3.4 Conventions . 12
3.4.1 Overview . 12
3.4.2 Precedence . 13
3.4.3 Lists . 13
3.4.4 Numbering . 14
3.4.5 Bit conventions . 14
3.4.6 Number range convention . 14
3.4.7 State diagram conventions . 15
3.4.8 Byte, word, DWord, QWord, and DQWord Relationships . 17
3.4.9 ATA string convention . 18
3.4.10 Offset Convention . 19
4 Feature set definitions . 20
4.1 Overview . 20
4.1.1 Feature set summary . 20
4.1.2 Capacity reporting . 21
4.2 General feature set . 22
4.2.1 Overview . 22
4.2.2 Unexpected power removal . 22
4.2.3 Interactions with volatile caches . 23
4.3 48-bit Address feature set . 24
4.4 Accessible Max Address Configuration feature set . 25
4.4.1 Overview . 25
4.4.2 SET ACCESSIBLE MAX ADDRESS EXT description . 25
4.4.3 Interactions with device statistics data . 25
4.5 Advanced Background Operation feature set (ABO) . 26
4.5.1 Overview . 26
4.5.2 Host-initiated advanced background operations . 26
4.5.3 Device-initiated advanced background operations . 27
4.6 Advanced Power Management (APM) feature set . 28
4.7 Command Duration Limits feature set . 29
4.7.1 Overview . 29
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4.7.2 COMMAND DURATION LIMITS INDEX field . 30
4.7.3 Command duration limits operation . 30
4.7.4 High Priority Enhancement feature . 31
4.8 Device Statistics Notification (DSN) feature set . 33
4.8.1 Overview . 33
4.8.2 DSN notifications . 33
4.8.3 DSN notifications setup . 34
4.9 Extended Power Conditions (EPC) feature set . 35
4.9.1 Overview . 35
4.9.2 Power conditions . 35
4.9.3 Power condition timers . 35
4.9.4 Interaction with resets, commands, and other features if the EPC feature set is enabled . 36
4.10 Free-fall Control feature set . 38
4.11 General Purpose Logging (GPL) feature set . 39
4.12 Hybrid Information feature set . 40
4.12.1 Hybrid Information feature overview . 40
4.12.2 Syncing . 42
4.12.3 Interactions with ATA power management . 42
4.12.4 Other Hybrid conditions . 43
4.13 Long Logical Sector (LLS) feature set . 45
4.14 Long Physical Sector (LPS) feature set . 47
4.15 Native Command Queuing (NCQ) feature set . 49
4.15.1 Overview . 49
4.15.2 Priority . 49
4.15.3 Unload with NCQ commands outstanding . 50
4.15.4 Command Phases . 50
4.15.5 NCQ command processing order requirements . 51
4.15.6 ATA device commands encapsulated in NCQ feature set commands . 51
4.15.7 Returning sense data for successful NCQ feature set commands . 51
4.16 Out Of Band Management Interface . 53
4.17 Power Management feature set . 55
4.17.1 Overview . 55
4.17.2 Power management commands . 55
4.17.3 Standby timer . 55
4.17.4 Power Management states and transitions . 56
4.18 Power-Up In Standby (PUIS) feature set . 60
4.18.1 Overview . 60
4.18.2 Interactions with the IDENTIFY DEVICE command . 60
4.18.3 PUIS feature set device spin-up subcommand . 60
4.19 Rebuild Assist feature set . 61
4.19.1 Overview . 61
4.19.2 Enabling the Rebuild Assist feature set . 61
4.19.3 Using the Rebuild Assist feature set . 61
4.19.4 Disabling the Rebuild Assist feature set . 63
4.19.5 Testing the Rebuild Assist feature set . 63
4.20 Sanitize Device feature set . 64
4.20.1 Overview . 64
4.20.2 Sanitize operation scope . 64
4.20.3 Sanitize commands . 64
4.20.4 Sanitize operations . 64
4.20.5 Interactions of the Sanitize Device feature set and Security feature set . 65
4.20.6 Command processing during sanitize operations . 65
4.20.7 Sanitize Operation Completed Without Error value . 66
4.20.8 Failure Mode Policy value . 66
4.20.9 Sanitize Antifreeze value . 67
4.20.10 Sanitize Device state machine . 67
4.21 SATA Hardware Feature Control feature set . 70
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4.22 Security feature set . 71
4.22.1 Overview . 71
4.22.2 Disabling and enabling the Security feature set . 71
4.22.3 Passwords . 71
4.22.4 Master password capability . 71
4.22.5 Frozen mode . 72
4.22.6 Commands . 72
4.22.7 Security initial setting . 72
4.22.8 Password Rules . 72
4.22.9 Password attempt counter and SECURITY COUNT EXPIRED bit . 72
4.22.10 Master Password Identifier feature . 73
4.22.11 Security states . 73
4.23 Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature set . 85
4.23.1 Overview . 85
4.23.2 Background data collection . 85
4.23.3 Off-line/Captive mode data collection . 85
4.23.4 Threshold exceeded condition . 85
4.23.5 SMART feature set commands . 85
4.23.6 SMART operation with power management modes . 85
4.23.7 SMART device error log reporting . 85
4.24 Sense Data Reporting feature set . 87
4.24.1 General . 87
4.24.2 Current information sense data and deferred error sense data . 88
4.25 Software Settings Preservation (SSP) feature set . 89
4.26 Storage Element Depopulation feature set . 90
4.26.1 Overview . 90
4.26.2 Status change notification . 90
4.26.3 Repurposing Depopulation . 91
4.26.4 Repurposing Depopulation Restoration . 92
4.26.5 Effects of storage depopulation commands on other commands . 93
4.26.6 Interactions with logs . 94
4.26.7 Interactions with caches . 94
4.27 Streaming feature set . 95
4.27.1 Streaming feature set overview . 95
4.27.2 Streaming commands . 95
4.28 Trusted Computing feature set . 97
4.29 User Data Initialization feature set . 98
4.29.1 Overview . 98
4.29.2 User data initialization operation . 98
4.29.3 MUTATE EXT command . 100
4.30 Write-Read-Verify feature set . 101
5 ATA protocols . 102
6 Normal and Error Output field descriptions . 103
6.1 Overview . 103
6.2 STATUS field . 103
6.2.1 Overview . 103
6.2.2 ALIGNMENT ERROR bit . 103
6.2.3 BUSY bit . 103
6.2.4 DATA REQUEST bit . 104
6.2.5 DEFERRED WRITE ERROR bit . 104
6.2.6 DEVICE FAULT bit . 104
6.2.7 DEVICE READY bit . 104
6.2.8 ERROR bit . 104
6.2.9 SENSE DATA AVAILABLE bit . 104
6.2.10 STREAM ERROR bit . 105
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6.2.11 Transport Dependent bits and fields . 105
6.3 ERROR field . 105
6.3.1 Overview . 105
6.3.2 ABORT bit . 105
6.3.3 COMMAND COMPLETION TIME OUT bit . 106
6.3.4 ID NOT FOUND bit . 106
6.3.5 INTERFACE CRC bit . 106
6.3.6 UNCORRECTABLE ERROR bit . 106
6.4 COUNT field . 106
6.4.1 Overview . 106
6.4.2 Contiguous stream logical sectors that contain potentially bad data . 106
6.4.3 NCQ Tag . 106
6.5 SACTIVE field . 106
6.6 SATA STATUS field . 107
6.7 LBA field . 107
6.7.1 Overview . 107
6.7.2 LBA of First Unrecoverable Error . 107
6.8 Sense code definitions . 107
6.8.1 Overview . 107
6.8.2 ACCESS DENIED - NO ACCESS RIGHTS . 108
6.8.3 COMMAND SEQUENCE ERROR . 109
6.8.4 COMMAND TIMEOUT BEFORE PROCESSING . 109
6.8.5 COMMAND TIMEOUT DURING PROCESSING . 109
6.8.6 DATA CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE . 109
6.8.7 DEPOPULATION FAILED . 109
6.8.8 DEPOPULATION IN PROGRESS . 109
6.8.9 DEPOPULATION RESTORATION FAILED . 109
6.8.10 DEPOPULATION RESTORATION IN PROGRESS . 109
6.8.11 FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED . 109
6.8.12 INFORMATION UNIT iuCRC ERROR DETECTED . 109
6.8.13 INITIATOR RESPONSE TIMEOUT . 109
6.8.14 INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES . 109
6.8.15 INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE . 110
6.8.16 INVALID COMMAND OPERATION CODE . 110
6.8.17 INVALID FIELD IN CDB . 110
6.8.18 INVALID FIELD IN PARAMETER LIST . 110
6.8.19 LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE . 110
6.8.20 LOGICAL UNIT FAILED SELF-TEST . 110
6.8.21 LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, FORMAT IN PROGRESS . 110
6.8.22 LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, INITIALIZING COMMAND REQUIRED . 110
6.8.23 LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, MICROCODE ACTIVATION REQUIRED . 110
6.8.24 LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, POWER CYCLE REQUIRED . 110
6.8.25 LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, SANITIZE IN PROGRESS . 110
6.8.26 MEDIUM FORMAT CORRUPTED . 110
6.8.27 MULTIPLE READ ERRORS . 111
6.8.28 MULTIPLE WRITE ERRORS . 111
6.8.29 NO ADDITIONAL SENSE INFORMATION . 111
6.8.30 NO DEFECT SPARE LOCATION AVAILABLE . 111
6.8.31 OVERLAPPED COMMANDS ATTEMPTED . 111
6.8.32 READ ERROR - LBA MARKED BAD BY APPLICATION CLIENT . 111
6.8.33 UNRECOVERED READ ERROR . 111
6.8.34 WARNING – DEVICE STATISTICS NOTIFICATION ACTIVE . 111
6.8.35 WRITE ERROR . 111
7 Command descriptions . 112
7.1 Command description introduction . 112
7.2 Accessible Max Address Configuration . 119
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7.2.1 Accessible Max Address Configuration overview . 119
7.2.2 GET NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT – 78h/0000h, Non-Data . 120
7.2.3 SET ACCESSIBLE MAX ADDRESS EXT – 78h/0001h, Non-Data. 121
7.2.4 FREEZE ACCESSIBLE MAX ADDRESS EXT – 78h/0002h, Non-Data. 123
7.3 CHECK POWER MODE – E5h, Non-Data . 124
7.4 CONFIGURE STREAM – 51h, Non-Data . 125
7.5 DATA SET MANAGEMENT – 06h, DMA . 127
7.6 DATA SET MANAGEMENT XL – 07h, DMA . 131
7.7 DOWNLOAD MICROCODE – 92h, PIO Data-Out/Non-Data . 133
7.8 DOWNLOAD MICROCODE DMA – 93h, DMA/Non-Data . 147
7.9 EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC – 90h, Execute Device Diagnostic . 148
7.10 FLUSH CACHE – E7h, Non-Data . 150
7.11 FLUSH CACHE EXT – EAh, Non-Data . 151
7.12 GET PHYSICAL ELEMENT STATUS – 12h, DMA . 152
7.13 IDENTIFY DEVICE – ECh, PIO Data-In . 157
7.14 IDLE – E3h, Non-Data . 191
7.15 IDLE IMMEDIATE – E1h, Non-Data . 193
7.16 MUTATE EXT - 96h, Non-Data . 195
7.17 NCQ NON-DATA – 63h, Non-Data . 197
7.18 NOP – 00h, Non-Data . 221
7.19 READ BUFFER – E4h, PIO Data-In . 222
7.20 READ BUFFER DMA – E9h, DMA . 223
7.21 READ DMA – C8h, DMA . 224
7.22 READ DMA EXT – 25h, DMA . 225
7.23 READ FPDMA QUEUED – 60h, DMA Queued . 227
7.24 READ LOG EXT – 2Fh, PIO Data-In . 229
7.25 READ LOG DMA EXT – 47h, DMA . 231
7.26 READ SECTOR(S) – 20h, PIO Data-In . 233
7.27 READ SECTOR(S) EXT – 24h, PIO Data-In . 234
7.28 READ STREAM DMA EXT – 2Ah, DMA . 235
7.29 READ STREAM EXT – 2Bh, PIO Data-In . 238
7.30 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) – 40h, Non-Data . 239
7.31 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) EXT – 42h, Non-Data . 240
7.32 RECEIVE FPDMA QUEUED – 65h, DMA Queued . 241
7.33 REMOVE ELEMENT AND TRUNCATE – 7Ch, Non-Data . 243
7.34 REQUEST SENSE DATA EXT – 0Bh, Non-Data . 245
7.35 RESTORE ELEMENTS AND REBUILD – 7Dh, Non-Data . 246
7.36 Sanitize Device . 248
7.36.1 Sanitize Device Overview . 248
7.36.2 BLOCK ERASE EXT – B4h/0012h, Non-Data. 249
7.36.3 CRYPTO SCRAMBLE EXT – B4h/0011h, Non-Data. 252
7.36.4 OVERWRITE EXT – B4h/0014h, Non-Data. 255
7.36.5 SANITIZE ANTIFREEZE LOCK EXT – B4h/0040h, Non-Data. 258
7.36.6 SANITIZE FREEZE LOCK EXT – B4h/0020h, Non-Data . 261
7.36.7 SANITIZE STATUS EXT – B4h/0000h, Non-Data. 263
7.37 SECURITY DISABLE PASSWORD – F6h, PIO Data-Out . 265
7.38 SECURITY ERASE PREPARE – F3h, Non-Data . 267
7.39 SECURITY ERASE UNIT – F4h, PIO Data-Out . 268
7.40 SECURITY FREEZE LOCK – F5h, Non-Data . 271
7.41 SECURITY SET PASSWORD – F1h, PIO Data-Out . 272
7.42 SECURITY UNLOCK – F2h, PIO Data-Out . 275
7.43 SEND FPDMA QUEUED – 64h, DMA Queued . 278
7.43.8 HYBRID EVICT – 64h/1h, DMA Queued . 280
7.44 SET DATE & TIME EXT – 77h, Non-Data . 284
7.45 SET FEATURES – EFh, Non-Data . 285
7.45.1 Introduction . 285
7.45.2 SET FEATURES subcommands . 286
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7.45.3 Enable/disable volatile write cache . 288
7.45.4 Set transfer mode . 289
7.45.5 Enable/disable the APM feature set . 290
7.45.6 Enable/disable the PUIS feature set . 290
7.45.7 PUIS feature set device spin-up . 290
7.45.8 Enable/Disable Write-Read-Verify feature set . 291
7.45.9 Enable/disable device life control . 292
7.45.10 Enable/Disable Command Duration Limits feature set . 292
7.45.11 Set Maximum Host Interface Sector Times . 294
7.45.12 Set rate basis . 294
7.45.13 Enable/disable read look-ahead . 294
7.45.14 Enable/disable reverting to defaults . 295
7.45.15 Enable/Disable the Free-fall Control feature set . 295
7.45.16 Enable/Disable SATA feature . 295
7.45.17 Enable/Disable the Sense Data Reporting feature set . 299
7.45.18 Enable/Disable sense data return for successful NCQ commands . 299
7.45.19 Long Physical Sector Alignment Error Reporting Control . 300
7.45.20 Extended Power Conditions subcommand . 301
7.45.21 Enable/Disable the DSN feature set . 312
7.4
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