Fujitsu MBC2036RC, MBC2073RC, MBA3300RC, MBA3147RC Logical block address, Transfer data length

Command Processing

Group 3 ("011"): Reserved Operation Code (Shown in Section (6))

Group 4 ("100"): 16-byte CDB

Group 5 ("101"): 12-byte CDB (Shown in Table 2.3)

Group 6 ("110"): Vendor unique CDB (shown in Section 2.8.3)

Group 7 ("111"): Vendor unique CDB (shown in Section 2.8.3)

b.Command code

The command code specifies the type of command in each group.

(2)Logical block address

This field shows the top logical data block address of the data block group on the disk medium that is to be processed by the command. In a Group 0 CDB, 21-bit block addressing can be used, and in a Group 1, Group 2 or Group 5 CDB, 32-bit block addressing can be used. Standards for logical data block addressing in the HDD are described in Section 2.9.

(3) Transfer data length

This field specifies the length of data to be transferred between the INIT and the TARG by execution of the command, either as the number of logical data blocks or the number of bytes. In subsequent descriptions, the former is called the "Number of Transfer Blocks" and the latter is called the "Transfer Byte Length" or the "Parameter List Length".

Furthermore, depending on the command, use of this field can have other meanings, or no meaning at all. There are also some commands which allocate 3 or more bytes as the transfer data length field. Detailed standards concerning these commands are described in the specifications for individual commands in Chapter 4.

a.Transfer block count

When the "Transfer Data Length" field is specified as the "Number of Transfer Blocks", this field specifies the number of logical data blocks transferred between the INIT and HDD.

In a command with a 1-byte length, if the value specified in this field is zero, it is regarded that 256 blocks have been specified, and specification in a range of from 1 to 256 blocks is possible. On the other hand, in a command with a 2-byte length, when the value specified in this field is zero, data transfer is not executed. Specification in a range of from 0 to 65,535 blocks is possible.

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