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Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 31

4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface

These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA

programmed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6.

For detailed information about the Serial ATA interface, refer to the “Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT

Attachment” specification.

4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility

Barracuda ES Serial ATA drives incorporate connectors which enable you to hot plug these drives in accor-

dance with the Serial ATA II: Extension to Serial ATA 1.0a specification. This specification can be downloaded

from www.serialata.org.

Caution:

The drive motor must come to a complete stop (Ready to spindle stop time indicated in Section 2.7)

prior to changing the plane of operation. This time is required to insure data integrity.

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