SCSI Description
5-176 Maxtor Atlas 10K III
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.
WRITE SAME Command Descriptor Block-Data Format
WRITE SAME Command-Field Descriptions
0 Operation Code (41h)
1 Reserved PBdata LBdta RelAdr
2 - 5 Logical Block Address
6 Reserved
7 - 8 Number of Blocks
9 Control
PBdata
Physical Block Data. – Not supported.
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.
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.