Fujitsu M2488 manual Report Density Support Field Description, Report Density Support Data

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE

Table 4-100. REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Field Description

BYTE	BIT	VALUE	DESCRIPTION
0	0-7	44h	Operation code.
1	0		The Media bit indicates which DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks are to be
			returned.
		0b	DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks are to be returned to the initiator for
			densities supported by the logical unit for any supported media. This
			includes density 09h described in Table 4-102 on page 7-107 and density
			28h described in Table 4-103 on page 7-108.
		1b	Density support data block(s) is to be returned to the initiator for densities
			supported by the mounted medium:
			a) If the mounted medium is a standard-length tape, there are two DEN-
			SITY SUPPORT data blocks returned. This includes density 09h described
			in Table 4-102 on page 7-107 and density 28h described in Table 4-103 on
			page 7-108.
			b) If the mounted medium is an extended-length tape, there is one DEN-
			SITY SUPPORT data block returned: density 28h described in Table 4-
			103 on page 7-108.
			Notes:
			a) The DENSITY SUPPORT data block’s Capacity field corresponding to
			density 28h is dependent on the tape length when the Media bit in the CDB
			is set. Reference the description of the DENSITY SUPPORT data block’s
			Capacity field in Table 4-104 on page 7-109.
			b) If the Media bit is one and the logical unit is NOT READY, CHECK
			CONDITION status is generated with a sense key of NOT READY.
7-8		xxh	Allocation Length field specifies the maximum number of bytes that the
			initiator has allocated for returned REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT data.
			An allocation length of zero indicates no data is to be transferred. This
			condition is not considered an error.
			The target terminates the DATA IN phase when allocation length bytes are
			transferred or when all available data is transferred to the initiator, which-
			ever is less. An allocation length of at least 6Ah (106) should be specified
			in order for all of the maximum possible bytes to be returned to the initia-
			tor.

4-3.24.2 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Data

The REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT data contains a four-byte header, followed by one or two DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks. The DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks are in numerical ascending order of the primary density code value in each block. Each DENSITY SUPPORT data block represents a particular format including physical density information. The information in the DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks is intended to provide the initiator with a detailed description of the recording technologies supported by the logical unit. Density code values returned in the DEN- SITY SUPPORT data blocks may be used by the initiator in the Block Descriptor of a MODE SELECT command, however, the M2488 always operates in a fixed density support mode (i.e 18- track read; 36-track read/write) independent of the value sent in the Block Descriptor (reference the MODE SELECT command specification in section 4-3.12 on page 4-51).

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