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4.4 Maintenance, Diagnostic Commands
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c. Logical/physical address conversion
This parameter page specifies conversion of the address information
expressed in either the "Logical Block Address," "Physical Sector Address"
or "Byte Distance from the Index" format to another expression format.
Table 4.53 shows this parameter page format. The INIT can specify the
address information that should be converted in this parameter page of the
SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, and can read the conversion results by the
RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS command (see Section 4.4.2 (2)).
Table 4.53 SEND DIAGNOSTIC parameters: logical/physical address conversion
Bit
Byte
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0 X '40' (Page Code)
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 X '00' (Page Parameter Length)
3 X '0A' (Page Parameter Length)
4 0 0 0 0 0
Address Format Before Conversion
5 0 0 0 0 0
Address Format After Conversion
6
7
Logical or Physical Address
13
The "Address Format Before Conversion" field shows the format of the address
information specified in bytes 6 to 13. The HDD converts that address
information to the expression format specified in the "Address Format After
Conversion" field. the following codes can be specified as Table 4.54.
Table 4.54 Specifying address format
Code Address Format
0 0 0 Logical Block Address Format
1 0 0 Byte Distance from the Index Format
1 0 1 Physical Sector Address Format
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