On Bd-R Media; Format Type = 30H (Format With Spare Areas For Bd-Re); Format Type = 32H (Format Bd-R With Spare Areas) - Pioneer BDR-203 Command Reference Manual

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BDR-203/BDC-203 Command Reference Manual

4.3.1.1.2 On BD-R media

For BD-R, 4096 spare Clusters are allocated in ISA0 and 8192 Clusters in OSA. In addition, for BD-R Dual, 4096 spare Clusters
are allocated in ISA1. TDMA1 size is 2048 Clusters and TDMA2 is 4096 Clusters. For BD-R Dual, TDMA2 is 2048 Clusters,
TDMA3 is 4096 Clusters, TDMA4 is 4096 Clusters and TDMA5 is 2048 Clusters.
The drive supports the following Format Sub-type:
Table 7 - Format Sub-type
Sub-type
Description
Value
00b
SRM with POW
01b
SRM without POW
The Drive ignores the Number of Blocks field and the Block Length field.

4.3.1.2 Format Type = 30h (Format with Spare Areas for BD-RE)

The drive supports the following Format Sub-type:
Table 8 - Format Sub-type
Sub-type
Description
Value
00b
Quick Reformat
01b
No Certification
The drive formats the disc in order that the User Data Area contains at least Number of Blocks. If the number of spare Clusters to
be allocated depend on Number of Blocks is less than 4096, the command will be terminated with CHECK CONDITION status
and a SK/ASC/ASCQ values are set to ILLEGAL REQUEST/INVALID FIELD IN PARAMETER LIST(05/26/00).
The Spare Area size in Clusters field is ignored by the drive.

4.3.1.3 Format Type = 32h (Format BD-R with Spare Areas)

The drive supports the Format Sub-types as Table 9 - Format Sub-type.
Table 9 - Format Sub-type
Sub-type
Description
Value
00b
SRM with POW
01b
SRM without POW
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