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12.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions

Table 13 lists various features and conditions. A ā€œYā€ in the support column indicates the feature or condition is

supported. An ā€œNā€ in the support column indicates the feature or condition is not supported.

Table 13: Miscellaneous features

Supported Feature or condition
N Automatic contingent allegiance
N Asynchronous event notification
N Synchronized (locked) spindle operation
Y Segmented caching
N Zero latency read
Y Queue tagging (up to 64 queue tags supported)
Y Deferred error handling
Y Parameter rounding (controlled by Round bit in Mode Select page 0)
Y Reporting actual retry count in Extended Sense bytes 15, 16, and 17
N Adaptive caching
Y SMP = 1 in Mode Select command needed to save RPL and rotational offset bytes

Table 14: Miscellaneous status

Supported Status
YGood
Y Check condition
Y Condition met/good
YBusy
Y Intermediate/good
Y Intermediate/condition met/good
Y Reservation conflict
Y Task set full
NACA active
N ACA active, faulted initiator