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Scsi features, Design approach, Power-on – HP Q153090901 User Manual

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The following additional commands are supported for CD-ROM mode:

For implementation details on these commands, see

Chapter 3, “Commands—introduction”

and

Chapter 4, “Commands”

.

SCSI features

Design approach

The features supported by the drive are based on standards, both official and de facto. The drive is

fully compliant with the current SCSI standards: SPC3, SSC2, SAM2, and the relevant transport

protocol (e.g. SPI4 for the parallel SCSI drive). All mandatory commands and features are

supported, as well as some that are optional. In addition, some features from older standards are

still supported for backwards compatibility.

Power-on

The drive will respond to

INQUIRY

,

TEST UNIT READY

,

REPORT LUNS

and

REQUEST SENSE

commands

within 250 ms of power on. The first command received from an initiator (other than

INQUIRY

and

REQUEST SENSE

) will result in

CHECK CONDITION

status, with

UNIT ATTENTION

sense data reported

for the power on. Once the drive has completed its self-test and set-up procedures, it will attempt

to reload any tape that is already present in the drive. It may take some time to recover the tape,

especially if it was positioned near EOM when power was cycled. During tape recovery, medium

access commands will result in a sense key of

NOT READY

, with additional sense of 0401h (drive

in process of becoming ready).

Reset strategy

The drive supports reset as follows:

The current I/O process is aborted

Any queued I/O processes from other initiators are removed

All negotiated settings are cleared

(parallel SCSI drives only)

Mode parameters are cleared to their default values

Any reservations are cleared (but not persistent reservations)

Any buffered writes are flushed to tape

The logical position becomes undefined, unless Rewind-On-Reset has been configured in

which case the drive will rewind to BOM

08h

READ 6

43h

READ TOC

28h

READ 10

2Bh

SEEK

25h

READ CAPACITY

1Bh

START/STOP UNIT