MMC vs Mt.Fuji on FORMAT UNIT command

[Harry Ai]

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* Harry Ai <ai.takaharu at jp.panasonic.com>
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Hello MMC people and Mt.Fuji people,

We find one inconsistency between MMC standard and Mt.Fuji specification. 
That is the handling of the Number of Blocks field value and Type Dependent 
Parameter field value in FORMAT UNIT command with Format type=00h.

In Mt.Fuji, the value of those fields is limited to the one reported by 
READ FORMAT CAPACITIES command, i.e. the value shall be selected from one 
of the Formattable Capacity Descroptors reported.

But in MMC2, 3 and 4, there is no such a limitation.

According to our servay, we could not find a C/DVD-R/RW drive which 
implemented this limitation. In addition to that, the MMCTest software in 
HCT11.0 of Microsoft specifies those fields other than the value reported 
by Formattable Capacity Descroptors during CD-RW function testing.

On the other hand, DVD-RAM drives implement it.

One of the idea to solve this problem is to change the definition in both 
MMC and Mt.Fuji to that the limitation is applied only to the DVD-RAM disc.



Best Regards,


Takaharu (Harry) Ai
DVD-RAM Category
Panasonic AVC Network Communications
Matsushita/Panasonic
Osaka, Japan
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