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APPLICATION TAG MASK bit set to one enables the checking of the corresponding bit of the EXPECTED LOGICAL BLOCK APPLICATION TAG field

with the corresponding bit of the LOGICAL BLOCK APPLICATION TAG field in every instance of protection information.

If the ATO bit is set to one in the Control mode page (see 5.3.12) and checking of the LOGICAL BLOCK APPLICATION TAG field is disabled (see

table 217), or if the ATO bit is set to zero, then the LOGICAL BLOCK APPLICATION TAG MASK field and the EXPECTED LOGICAL BLOCK APPLICA-

TION TAG field shall be ignored.

3.76 WRITE STREAM (16) command

The WRITE STREAM (16) command (see table 240) requests that the device server perform the actions defined for the WRITE (10) command

(see 3.60).

OPERATION CODE field

The OPERATION CODE field is defined in 2.2 and shall be set to the value shown in table 240 for the WRITE STREAM (16) command.

STR_ID field

The stream identifier (STR_ID) field specifies the stream identifier associated with this command as described in SBC-4.

See the WRITE (10) command (see 3.60) for the definitions of the other fields in this command.

Table 240 WRITE STREAM (16) command

Bit

Byte

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

0 OPERATION CODE (9Ah)

1 WRPROTECT DPO FUA Reserved

2 (MSB)

LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS. . .

9 (LSB)

STR_ID

12 (MSB)

TRANSFER LENGTH

13 (LSB)

14 Reserved GROUP NUMBER

15 CONTROL