HP 2600fx - Optical Disk Drive Command Reference Manual page 126

ERA
Rel Adr
Transfer
Length
PBA
NOTE If this command is executed for write-once disks, the drive returns a
CHECK CONDITION status with the Sense Key/Additional Sense Code
set to Illegal Request/Invalid Command Operation Code.
When this command is executed with 14X 512 or 1024 byte/sector media,
NOTE
the drive will return a CHECK CONDITION status. The sense key/
additional sense code will be set to ILLEGAL REQUEST/INVALID
COMMAND.
Chapter 2
An Erase All bit of 1 indicates that all remaining blocks
are erased, starting from the logical block address to the
end of the disk. The transfer length must be set to 0.
An ERA bit of 0 indicates that all blocks are erased,
starting from the logical block address to the end of the
specified transfer length.
A relative address bit of one indicates that logical block
address specified is a two's complement offset from the
last logical block address accessed.
A value of 0 indicates that the logical block address is an
absolute address.
The Transfer Length field specifies the number of
contiguous logical blocks of data to be erased. A value of
0 indicates that no blocks will be erased and is not
considered an error.
A Physical Block Address bit of 1 indicates that physical
block addressing is used.
A PBA bit of 0 indicates that logical block addressing is
used.
SCSI-2 Drive Command Set
Erase (Group 1) Command (2CH)
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