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How ATA Registers Work


After some requests from users we have started restoring some of the technical pages we had on our website. There were a few on our old website that are being converted from the old site tro the new one.

The latest one is the page that describes how the ATA registers work on a hard disk drive. With explanations of the purpose of their functions and has been updated to include 48 bit LBA addressing.,

The page can be found at : https://www.mjm.co.uk/articles/how-hard-disk-ata-registers-work.html

We are also in the process of building some technical videos showing exactly what goes on when accessing hard disks.

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