Maxtor ATLAS 10K III - Manual (Page 240)

SCSI Description
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The WRITE SAME command requests that the drive write the single sector of data
transferred by the initiator to the medium multiple times. The data format and field
descriptions are shown in Table 5-222 and Table 5-223 respectively.
Table 5-222 WRITE SAME Command Descriptor Block-Data Format
Table 5-223 WRITE SAME Command-Field Descriptions
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0 Operation Code (41h)
1 Reserved PBdata LBdta RelAdr
2 - 5 Logical Block Address
6 Reserved
7 - 8 Number of Blocks
9 Control
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PBdata
Physical Block Data. – Not supported. 6JKU HKGNF OWUV DG \GTQ
LBdata
Logical Block Data. – A value of 1 requests that the drive replace the first four
bytes of the data to be written to the current logical sector with the logical sector
address of the sector currently being written.
RelAdr Relative Address. – Not supported. 6JKU HKGNF OWUV DG \GTQ
Logical
Block Ad-
dress
The address of the first logical sector where the Write operation will occur.
Number of
Blocks
This field contains the number of contiguous logical blocks that are to be written.
A value of 0 requests that all the remaining logical blocks on the medium are to
be written.