M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS
April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-73
** NOTE **
1. A buffer may be altered between t he WR ITE BUFFER and READ
BUFFER commands by execution of commands from another initiator
or background diagnostics. Buffer testing applications may avoid
buffer usage conflicts with ot her i nit iator s by use of linked command,
or by reserving the addressed LUN.
2. There is only one 512- byte NVRAM area available. This area may
be accessed by any initiator. The NVRAM is not par ti tioned in to “per
initiator” areas .
Table 4-69. Offset
BOUNDARY 2 OFFSET BOUNDARY BUFFER OFFSETS
020=1 Byte boundaries
121=2 Even-byte boundaries
222=4 Four-byte boundaries
323=8 Eight-byte boundaries
424=16 16-byte boundaries
525=32 32-byte boundaries