11.4Miscellaneous operating features and conditions

Table 19 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is supported. An “N” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is not supported.

Table 19:

Miscellaneous features

 

 

 

Supported

 

Feature or condition

 

 

 

N

 

Automatic contingent allegiance

 

 

 

N

 

Asynchronous event notification

 

 

 

Y

 

Segmented caching

 

 

 

N

 

Zero latency read

 

 

 

Y

 

Queue tagging (up to 128 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

 

 

 

Table 20:

Miscellaneous status

 

 

Supported

Status

 

 

Y

Good

 

 

Y

Check condition

 

 

Y

Condition met/good

 

 

Y

Busy

 

 

Y

Reservation conflict

 

 

Y

Task set full

 

 

N

ACA active

 

 

N

ACA active, faulted initiator

NTask Aborted

11.4.1SAS physical interface

Figure 14 shows the location of the SAS device connector J1. Figures 15 and 16 provide the dimensions of the SAS connector.

Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provided within this section. The operational aspects of Seagate’s SAS drives are provided in the SAS Interface Manual.

Figure 14. Physical interface

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