5.7CHANGE OPERATING DEFINITION (40h)

The CHANGE DEFINITION command shown in Table 5-9and Table 5-10set the SCSI compliance for disk drives with parallel SCSI interfaces to one of four different levels: SCSI-1, SCSI-1/CCS, SCSI-2 or SCSI-3.

Table 5-9CHANGE DEFINITION Command Descriptor Block-Data Format

Bit

7

6

 

5

4

 

3

2

1

 

0

Byte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

 

 

 

 

Operation Code (40h)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

Save

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

Rsv’d

 

 

 

New Operating Definition

 

 

 

 

 

 

(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are legal values for Parallel SCSI Disk Drives)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 - 7

 

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

Parameter Data Length

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

Control

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 5-10CHANGE DEFINITION-Field Descriptions

Field

 

Description

 

Save Parameters. When this field is set to 1, the new op-

Save

erating definition is saved in the drive's non-volatile

 

memory.

 

 

 

The values that can be supplied in the field are listed be-

 

low:

 

0

Current Definition

 

1

SCSI-1

New Operating Definition

2 SCSI-1/CCS (Common Command Set)

 

3

SCSI-2

 

4

SCSI-3

 

5

SCSI-3 U160

 

6

SCSI-3 U320

 

 

Parameter Data Length

Length, in bytes, of the parameter data.

Must be 0.

 

 

 

 

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