Quantum 10K II 5.48 WRITE AND VERIFY Command (2Eh)

SCSI Description
Quantum Atlas 10K II Ultra160/m SCSI Hard Disk Drives 5–219
5.48 WRITE AND VERIFY Command (2Eh)
The WRITE AND VERIFY command writes host-supplied data to the unit and
verifies it was written correctly.
Bit
Byte
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0Operation Code (2Eh)
1Reserved DPO Reserved BytChk RelAdr
2 - 5 Logical Block Address
6Reserved
7 - 8 Transfer Length
9Control
Figure 5–108 WRITE AND VERIFY Command Descriptor Block — Data Format
Table 5–102 WRITE AND VERIFY Command — Field Descriptions
Field Description
DPO Disable Page Out. When the value of the field is 1, the drive tells the
controller to bypass cache as much as possible. The buffers used for the
WRITE data are given a low priority. This bit may be useful if the host CPU is
performing a background copy operation and does not want to wipe out
the drive's cache.
When DPO is 0, the drive tells the controller to cache this WRITE data in a
normal manner.
NOTE: The drive normally assigns a low priority to write caching. Therefore,
the DPO bit in a WRITE command is essentially ignored.
BytChk Byte Check. When 1, the drive performs a byte-by-byte comparison of the
data written on the media with the data transferred from the initiator.
When 0, the drive performs a medium verification with no data
comparison of the sectors written by the command.
RelAdr Relative Address. This feature is not supported and the field must be 0.
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