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M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS

CHAPTER 6

MEDIA CHANGER SCSI COMMANDS

6-1 INTRODUCTION

This chapter describes the medium changer commands for the M2488. The following information is located in this chapter:

6-2 MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS

6-3 ADDITIONAL COMMAND INFORMATION ON MEDIUM CHANGER MODE SELECT AND MODE SENSE COMMANDS

6-4 MC (Medium Changer) Inquiry/Change Definition Vital Product Data Pages

6-2 MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS

The media changer commands are described in Table 6-1. For more details on the commands, refer to the paragraph listed in the table for that command.

Table 6-1. Commands for Medium Changer Devices

OP	COMMAND NAME	DESCRIPTION	PARAGRAPH
CODE
00h	TEST UNIT READY	Provides a means to check if the logical unit is	6-2.6 on page 6-30
		ready.
03h	REQUEST SENSE	Requests the target transfer sense data to the initi-	4-3.23 on page 4-103
		ator.
		Provides a means for an initiator to request infor-	4-3.6 on page 4-18 &
12h	INQUIRY	mation regarding parameters of the target and any
			5-3 on page 5-17
		attached peripheral devices.
		Provides a means for the initiator to specify	6-2.2 on page 6-6 &
15h	MODE SELECT	medium, logical unit, or peripheral device param-
			6-3 on page 6-32
		eters to the target.
		Provides a means for a target to report its medium,	6-2.3 on page 6-11
1Ah	MODE SENSE	logical unit, or peripheral device parameters to the
			& 6-3 on page 6-32
		initiator.
	RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC	Requests that analysis data generated by a previ-
1Ch		ous SEND DIAGNOSTIC command be sent to	4-3.19 on page 4-83
	RESULTS
		the initiator.
1Dh	SEND DIAGNOSTIC	Requests the target to perform diagnostic tests on	4-3.27 on page 4-117
		itself, or on the attached peripheral devices.
40h	CHANGE DEFINITION	Used to modify the operating definition of the	4-3.2 on page 4-5 &
		selected target with respect to all initiators.	6-4 on page 6-41
A5h	MOVE MEDIUM	Requests that the target move a unit of media from	6-2.4 on page 6-16
		a source element to a destination element.
		Provides a means to exchange the medium in the
A6h	EXCHANGE MEDIUM	source element, with the medium located at a des-	6-2.1 on page 6-2
		tination element.
B8h	READ ELEMENT STATUS	Requests that the target report status information	6-2.5 on page 6-19
		for the medium-changer elements.

March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-1