5.12.13Information Exceptions Control Page (1Ch)

This page defines the methods used by the disk drive to control the reporting and operations of specific informational exception conditions. This page applies only to informational exceptions that report an additional sense code of FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED to the application client.

Informational exception conditions occur as the result of vendor-specific events within a disk drive. An informational exception condition may occur asynchronous to any commands issued by an application client.

The data format and field descriptions are described in Table 5-82and Table 5-83respectively. The Codes Used by the MRIE Field are described in Table 5-84.

Table 5-82Information Exceptions Control Page-(Page 1Ch)

Bit

7

6

 

5

4

3

 

2

 

1

0

Byte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

PS

 

 

 

Page Code (1Ch)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Page Length (0Ah)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Perf

 

Reserved

EWASC

DExcpt

 

Test

 

Rsv’d

LogErr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

MRIE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 - 7

(MSB)

 

 

 

Interval Timer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(LSB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 – 11

(MSB)

 

 

 

Report Count

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(LSB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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