Maxtor 10K III manual 105, 104, 106, Mode Sense 10 Command Descriptor Block-Data Format

SCSI Description

￿￿￿￿/1&'The￿MODE5'05'SENSE￿￿￿￿￿￿%1//#0&command allows￿￿￿the#Jinitiator￿￿to read the drive’s sector descriptor and mode pages.

See Table -104for MODE SENSE (10) Command Descriptor Block – Data Format, Table -105for Mode Parameter Header (10 Byte) — Data Format, and Table 5-106for Mode Parameter Block Descriptor – Data Format. Refer to Table 5-90,Table 5- 92, and Table -107for descriptions of the fields.

MODE SENSE (10) Command Descriptor Block-Data Format

$[VG$KV

￿

￿

￿

Operation￿

Code￿(5Ah)

￿

￿

￿

Reserved

DBD

Reserved

2

PC

Page Code

3

Sub

Page Code

4 – 6

Reserved

7 – 8

(MSB)

Allocation Length

(LSB)

9

Control

Mode Parameter Header (10 Byte)-Data Format

$0[VG-$1KV

(MSB)

Mode￿Data Length￿

￿

￿￿

￿

￿

￿

Table

5-104

(LSB)

2

Medium Type

3

Device-Specific Parameter

4 - 5

Reserved

6 - 7

Block Descriptor Length

Field Descriptions for the Mode Parameter Header are given in the table that follows.

Mode Parameter Block Descriptor-Data Format

$[VG0$KV

￿

￿

￿

Density￿

Code￿

￿

￿

￿

(MSB)

1 - 3

Table5-105

Number of Blocks

(LSB)

4

Reserved

(MSB)

5 - 7

Table5-106

Block Length

(LSB)

5-86

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