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14. Appendix G
SONY AIT-3 drive SDX-700 series Ver.2.1
14-5
14.7.
MODE SELECT PAGE 32H (APPEND PARTITION)
The Append Partition Command is available in the AIT mode. The Append Partition Command takes effect if the
current partition is the last partition. When the command is issued in the last partition, SDX-700C will automatically
space to the EOD area find the bottom of the Device Area, and then create a new partition. If the command is issued
in any other partition, SDX-700C will return the CHECK CONDITION status (83h/97h Current Partition is no the last
partition).
Bit
Byte
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0
Reserved
Page Code (32h)
1
Page Length (8)
2 Reserved
3 Reserved
4 Reserved PSUM
(10) Reserved
5 Reserved
6 Reserved
Partition
units
7 Reserved
8 (MSB)
9
Partition Size Descriptor
(LSB)
PSUM:
Partition Size Unit of Measured field defines the units in which the Partition Size value selects the partition size,
which in the case of this drive is Megabytes. Therefore, the drive returns 10b for a MODE SENSE and will only
accept this value for a MODE SELECT, otherwise a CHECK CONDITION status is returned with an ILLEGAL
REQUEST Sense Key set.
Partition units:
The Partition Size Units of Measure (PSUM) field defines the units used in the partition size descriptors. A
logical unit is not required to retain the Partition Size Unit of Measure used to partition the medium. The PSUM
field is defined in following table.
Code Description
Support
00B
bytes (unit of one)
Optional
01B kilobytes
(10
3
bytes)
Optional
10B megabytes
(10
6
bytes)
Optional
11B 10
x
bytes (
x
= partition units field)
Optional
Summary of Contents for SDX-700C
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