SCSI Multimedia Commands (MMC) is a standard defining a
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced ...
/
ATAPI
ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) is a protocol used with the Parallel ATA (IDE) and Serial ATA standards so that a greater variety of devices can be connected to a computer than with the ATA command set alone. It carries SCSI commands and responses ...
based command set for accessing and controlling optical disc readers/writers (any device of type 05h). Thus, optical drives for the
compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of hol ...
,
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any ki ...
, and
Blu-ray disc
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of ...
fall under this specification. The
T10 subcommittee is responsible for developing MMC as well as other
SCSI command
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced ...
set standards. It was approved in December 1997 by ANSI.
[http://www.13thmonkey.org/documentation/SCSI/x3_304_1997.pdf (MMC-3)]
See also
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Mount Rainier
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(MRW)
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Layer Jump Recording (LJR)
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Optical disc recording modes
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Small Form Factor committee
The Small Form Factor Committee (SFF) is an ''ad hoc'' electronics industry group formed to quickly develop interoperability specifications (as a complement to the traditional standards process).
The SFF Committee was formed in 1990 to define the ...
(SFF)
References
SCSI
Compact disc
DVD
Blu-ray Disc
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