Table 5-84Codes Used by the MRIE Field

 

 

Field

Description

0h

No reporting of informational exception condition. This method instructs the disk drive not to report these

conditions.

 

 

Asynchronous Event Reporting. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report informational

1h

exception conditions by using the rules for asynchronous event reporting as described in the SCSI-3 Ar-

chitecture Model and the relevant Protocol Standard. The sense key will be set to RECOVERED ERROR

 

 

and the additional sense code will indicate the cause of the informational exception condition.

 

 

 

Generate Unit Attention. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report informational excep-

 

tion 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 CONDITION 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 infor-

 

mational 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 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

 

before and informational exception condition is reported.

 

Unconditionally Generate Recovered Error. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report in-

 

formational exception conditions regardless of the value of the PER bit of the Error Recovery Parameters

4h

Mode Page, by returning a CHECK CONDITION status on any command. The sense key will be set to

RECOVERED ERROR and the additional sense code will indicate the cause of the informational excep-

 

 

tion condition. The command that has the CHECK CONDITION will complete without error before any

 

informational exception condition will be reported.

 

Generate No Sense. This method of reporting instructs the disk drive to report informational exception

5h

conditions by returning a CHECK CONDITION status on any command. The sense 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 complete without error before any informational excep-

 

tion condition is reported.

 

Only Report Informational Exception Condition On Request. This method of reporting instructs the disk

6h

drive to preserve the informational exception(s) data. To learn about these exception conditions, the ap-

plication 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 condi-

 

tion.

7h – Bh

Reserved.

 

 

Ch – Fh

Vendor-specific.

 

 

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