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achieve higher performance during the write operation. The CFA TRANSLATE SECTOR command
provides information about a sector, such as the number of write cycles performed on that sector, and
an indication of the sector’s erased precondition. The CFA REQUEST EXTENDED ERROR CODE
command provides more detailed error information.
3.2.12 48-Bit Address Feature Set
The optional 48-bit Address feature set allows devices with capacities up to 281,474,976,710,655 sec-
tors. This allows device capacity up to 144,115,188,075,855,360 bytes. In addition, the number of
sectors that may be transferred by a single command are increased by increasing the allowable sector
count to 16 bits.
The commands in ...