MEDIA CHANGE R COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE
6-14 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997
If a MODE SELECT command with SP=1 has never been successfully performed on the target,
then following a power on, SCSI bus reset, BUS DEVICE RESET message, the controller reports
its default mode setting whe never current, or def ault values are requeste d. If a MODE SELECT
command with SP=1 was ever performed successfully, the controller will report the “saved param-
eters” whenever the current or saved values are requested, and it will report the default mode set-
tings only when the default parameters are requested.
6-2.3.3 MODE SENSE MC Sense Keys
One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated:
Table 6-14. MODE SENSE Page Descriptors Field Description
BYTE BIT VALU
EDESCRIPTION
0 0-5 Page code identifies the meaning of the bytes in that page.
0 7 1
0
When using the MODE SENSE command, a PS (Parameters Savable) bit of one indi-
cates that the mode page can be saved by the target in a non-volatile location.
A PS bit of zero indicates that the supported parameters cannot be saved. When using
the MODE SELECT command, the PS bit is reserved.
1 The Additional Page length field indicates the number of bytes the target supports in
each page. The additional page length value of each defined page, does not include the
Page Length byte. The target may return in the pages of the MODE SENSE com-
mands as many consecutive bytes as it supports, for each page it supports, without
splitting fields of multiple bytes. The page length is set in the pages of the MODE
SELECT command to the value returned by the target in the MODE SENSE Page
Length bytes. Otherwise, the target creates CHECK CONDITION status with the
sense key of ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION
1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing buffered data, before the
buffered mode operation occurred in MODE SENSE command.
3h MEDIUM ERROR 1. Write of buffered data failed due to a defective tape.
2. An attempt was made to write 36-track data on 18-track format-
ted medium.
4h HARDWARE ERROR 1. SCSI interface error occurred due to a hardware failure (e.g.
transfer of MODE SENSE data failed due to a hardware fail-
ure).
2. Write of buffered data failed due to a hardware failure.
5h ILLEGAL REQUEST 1. Reserved bit was found set in the CDB of the MODE SENSE
command.
2. Flag bit in the MODE SENSE CDB was set and the Link bit
was not set.