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11.37.4 Sanitize Status Ext Command (feature: 0000h)
Command Block Output Registers
Command Block Input Registers
Table 199 Sanitize Status Ext Command (B4h/0000h)
The SANITIZE STATUS EXT command returns information about current or previously completed sanitizes
operations. This includes:
a) progress indication on a current sanitize operation
b) whether a previous sanitize operation completed successfully or unsuccessfully
c) if an unsupported sanitize device command was received.
The SANITIZE STATUS EXT command is valid in every state of the Sanitize Device state machine.
Output Parameters To The Device
Sector Count Current bit 0
CLEAR SANITIZE OPERATION FAILED
If Sanitize Device state machine is in the SD3: Sanitize Failed state:
a) the FAILURE MODE bit was set to one in the Sanitize Device command
that caused the sanitize operation
b) the sanitize operation failed
c) the CLEAR SANITIZE OPERATION FAILED bit is set to one in the
SANITIZE STATUS EXT command then the Sanitize Device state machine
transitions to the SD0: Sanitize Idle state.
If the CLEAR SANITIZE OPERATION FAILED bit is set to one in the SANITIZE
STATUS EXT command, and the FAILURE MODE bit was set to zero in the
Sanitize Device command that caused the sanitize operation, the SANITIZE
STATUS EXT command returns command aborted.