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Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B, Introduction

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Introduction www.seagate.com The Serial ATA host adapter and drive share the function of emulating parallel ATA device behavior to provide backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block registers, PIO and DMA data transfers, resets, and interrupts are all emulated. The Serial ATA host adapter contains a set of registers that shadow the contents of the traditional device registers, referred to as the Shadow Register Block. All Serial ATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional information about how Serial ATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the "Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0". The specification can be downloaded from www.sata-io.org. 10 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B

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Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B
Introduction
www.seagate.com
The Serial ATA host adapter and drive share the function of emulating parallel ATA device behavior to provide
backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block registers, PIO
and DMA data transfers, resets, and interrupts are all emulated.
The Serial ATA host adapter contains a set of registers that shadow the contents of the traditional device registers,
referred to as the Shadow Register Block. All Serial ATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional
information about how Serial ATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the “Serial ATA International Organization: Serial
ATA Revision 3.0”. The specification can be downloaded from www.sata-io.org.