HP C737990900 - Manual (Page 134)

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The operation was abandoned without status (that is, a bus release
occurred) after what the drive perceived was a catastrophic error or when
an error occurred following the drive’s honoring of an ABORT message.
Following the bus release, the drive performed “cleanup” activity that
failed. The Deferred Error refers to the reason for this failure.
When any one of the above occurs, the sense generated will be DEFERRED
ERROR sense. This sense persists until the host sends a command that has Unit
Attention as part of its pre-execution checks. When the Deferred Error pre-
execution check fails, the DEFERRED ERROR sense is moved to the Current sense
and CHECK CONDITION status is reported to the host. The host is then expected
to issue a REQUEST SENSE command to recover the new Current sense data,
otherwise the data will be lost.
Write-Behind Deferred Errors:
If the Buffered Mode field of the MODE SELECT parameter header is not zero,
data buffering is enabled. If an error occurs in flushing the write-behind data,
DEFERRED ERROR sense is set for all hosts that the drive thinks have write-
behind data in the buffer. For each of these hosts, the following occurs when its
next command is to be executed:
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If the command is WRITE or WRITE FILEMARKS the DEFERRED ERROR sense is
copied to Current sense and the error is changed to a Current error (the
Error Code field is set to 70h). The information bytes will contain residue
information reflecting the size of the write-behind queue plus the transfer
size of the current command. CHECK CONDITION is reported. When the
host reads sense data with a REQUEST SENSE , it will see an error for the
WRITE with residue information indicating data lost for that write and
previous writes.
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If the command is not a write command and the Deferred Error check is
performed as part of the pre-execution checks, CHECK CONDITION status is
reported. The DEFERRED ERROR sense is copied to Current sense. The
DEFERRED ERROR sense is cleared. The host is expected to retrieve the sense
by sending a REQUEST SENSE , otherwise the data will be lost.
Bus Release Deferred Errors:
The drive will release the bus to terminate an operation (such as READ ) when
the host sends an ABORT message or when the drive fails to send status due to
a catastrophic error.
In each case, the operation does not terminate immediately since the logical
position will have to be established on the other side of the block that was