Maxtor 10K III manual Codes Used by the Mrie Field, Report an informational exception condition

SCSI Description

		8CNWG	The value contained in this field indicates the number of times to report an
			informational exception condition to the application client. A value of 0 in
			this field indicates there is no limit on the number of times the disk drive will
			report an informational exception condition.
			Each time the disk drive detects a SMART failure, the SMART status is re-
Report		1	ported the number of times indicated by the value of the Report Count field.
Count			The disk drive then resets its cumulative values and continues with its pre-
			dicting activity. The SMART threshold trip remains permanent (or until a
			LOG SELECT command clears it) and can be retrieved at any time using
			MRIE mode 6.
			NOTE: The Report Count field does not apply to MRIE mode 6.
				Codes Used by the MRIE Field
(KGNF0h	toNoreportreportingtheseof conditions.informational exception&GUETKRVKQPcondition. This method instructs the disk drive not
	Asynchronous Event Reporting. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report
	informational exception conditions by using the rules for asynchronous event reporting as
1h	described in the SCSI-3 Architecture Model and the relevant Protocol Standard. The sense
(KGNF	key will be set to RECOVERED ERROR and the additional sense code will indicate the cause
	of the&GHCWNVinformational￿			exception condition.	&GUETKRVKQP
	Generate Unit Attention. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report infor-
	mational exception conditions by returning a CHECK CONDITION status on any command.
2h	The sense key is set to UNIT ATTENTION and the additional sense code will indicate the
	cause of the information exception condition. The command that has the CHECK CONDI-
	TION will not be executed before the informational exception condition is reported.
	Conditionally Generate Recovered Error. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to
	report informational exception conditions dependent on the value of the PER bit of the Error
3h	Recovery Parameters Mode Page, by returning a CHECK CONDITION status on any com-
	mand. The sense key will be set to RECOVERED ERROR and the additional sense code will
	indicate the cause of the informational exception condition. The command that has the
	CHECK CONDITION will complete before and informational exception condition is reported.
	Unconditionally Generate Recovered Error. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive
	to report informational exception conditions regardless of the value of the PER bit of the
	Error Recovery ParametersTable5-82Mode Page, by returning a CHECK CONDITION status on any
4h	command. The sense key will be set to RECOVERED ERROR and the additional sense code
	will indicate the cause of the informational exception condition. The command that has the
	CHECK CONDITION will complete without error before any informational exception condi-
	tion will be reported.
	Generate No Sense. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report informational
	exception conditions by returning a CHECK CONDITION status on any command. The sense
5h	key will be set to NO SENSE and the additional sense code will indicate the cause of the
	informational exception condition. The command that has the CHECK CONDITION will com-
	plete without error before any informational exception condition is reported.
	Only Report Informational Exception Condition On Request. This method of reporting in-
	structs the disk drive to preserve the informational exception(s) data. To learn about these
6h	exception conditions, the application client polls the disk drive via an unsolicited REQUEST
	SENSE command. The sense key is set to NO SENSE and the additional sense code will
	indicate the cause of the informational exception condition.
7h – Bh				Reserved.
Ch – Fh				Vendor-specific.

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