SCSI Multimedia Commands (MMC) is a standard defining a
SCSI
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ATAPI based command set for accessing and controlling optical disc readers/writers (any device of type 05h). Thus, optical drives for the
compact disc
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,
DVD, and
Blu-ray disc
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fall under this specification. The
T10 subcommittee is responsible for developing MMC as well as other
SCSI command 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 (SFF)
References
SCSI
Compact disc
DVD
Blu-ray Disc
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