|  |     That's not quite true.
    The 1770/1772 have some built in motor control logic.
    Type I commands on 179X use bit 3 to control head loading (1=load).
    Type I commands on 177X use bit 3 to control the whole motor startup
    sequence (0=enable spin up).
    The type II settle delay (bit 2) is 30 ms, not 15 ms.
    Write commands use bit 1 to disable precompensation.
    Step rates are 2, 3, 5, 6 ms (r[1..0] = 00, 01, 10, 11).
    
    The status register is also slightly different.
    Bit		177X		179X
    7		Motor on	Not ready
    6		Write Protect	Write Protect
    5		Type/SpinUpOk	Type/WriteFault
    4		RNF		RNF
    3		CRC		CRC
    2		TR0/LostData	TR0/LostData
    1		DRQ/Index	DRQ/Index
    0		Busy		Busy
    
    There is a myth floating around that the part is a special
    one. This isn't true. The part is ordinary, and it is in the newest
    Western Digital daa books.
    I, by the way, don't have a data book. I have a copy of some of
    the pages from a data book I found in an office at SRC in
    Palo Alto.
    Just call Western Digital and ask.
    
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