A permanent magnet machine has a reconfigurable fault condition mechanism disposed solely within a stator core portion, wherein the mechanism is automatically reconfigurable to reduce fault currents associated with the PM machine during a fault condition. This includes a two-step method of processing both a DC code and a plurality of AC codes. A reference voltage may be used to set the output voltage at which the input differential transistor pair will be clamped by the voltage clamp differential transistor pair. The host controller transfers a storage command to the drive controller to write the object to the storage media.