SCSI Description

￿￿￿￿94+6'￿￿￿￿￿%QOOCPF￿￿￿#J￿The WRITE (6) command requests that the drive write initiator-supplied data to the medium.

The Command Descriptor Block for the WRITE (6) command is shown in Table 5- 212; Table 5-213describes the data fields.

WRITE (6) Command Descriptor Block-Data Format

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

TableTable5-212

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Operation Code (0Ah)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

Reserved

 

 

Logical Block Address

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 - 3

 

 

Logical Block Address

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transfer Length

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

Control

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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￿WRITE￿￿(6) Command-Field￿Descriptions￿

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Logical(KGNFBlock

The address of the first logical&GUETKRVKQPblock where the Write operation will oc-

 

 

Address

 

cur.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The number of contiguous logical blocks of data to transfer. A transfer

 

Transfer Length

length of 0 indicates 256 logical blocks are to be transferred. Any other

 

value indicates the actual number of logical blocks that will be trans-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maxtor 10K III manual Write 6 Command Descriptor Block-Data Format