SCSI Multimedia Commands 鈥?3 (MMC-3)

T10/1363-D

5.16 READ CAPACITY Command

The READ CAPACITY command (Table 144) provides a means for the Initiator to request information

regarding the capacity of the Logical Unit. This command shall not report the correct capacity of the

recorded data for CD-R, CD-RW and DVD-R/-RW media that does not have a Lead-out in the last

Session or last Border-out. For CD-ROM, the returned logical block address is modified to allow returning

a possibly inexact value (but one with a known error bound) based on the Table of Contents data