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9.4SCSI bus conditions and miscellaneous features supported

Asynchronous SCSI bus conditions supported by the drive are listed below. These conditions cause the SCSI device to perform certain actions and can alter the SCSI bus phase sequence. Other miscellaneous operating features supported are also listed here. Refer to the SCSI Interface Product Manual, part number 75789509, for details.

Table 10:

SCSI bus conditions and other miscellaneous features

Condition/features supported:

 

 

 

Supported

 

Conditions or feature

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

50 and 68 pin interface connectors

 

 

 

Y

 

1 Mbyte data buffer

 

 

 

N

 

Active termination disabled via jumper

 

 

 

Y

 

Terminator power from drive power connector and to SCSI bus option

 

 

 

Y

 

Terminator power from drive power connector option

 

 

 

Y

 

Terminator power from SCSI bus pin 26 option

 

 

 

Y

 

Terminator power from SCSI I/O cable pin 26

 

 

 

Y

 

Active termination enabled (N models only)

 

 

 

N

 

Adaptive caching

 

 

 

Y

 

Adaptive read look-ahead

 

 

 

Y

 

Arbitrating system

 

 

 

Y

 

ASYNC burst rate of 5 Mbytes/sec.—single-ended

 

 

 

Y

 

Asynchronous data transfer

 

 

 

N

 

Asynchronous event notification

 

 

 

Y

 

Attention condition

 

 

 

Y

 

Audio video recovery scheme

 

 

 

N

 

Automatic adaptive cache (customer unique option)

 

 

 

Y

 

Capacity programming

 

 

 

Y

 

Command overhead less than 500 USEC, typ.

 

 

 

Y

 

Contingent allegiance condition

 

 

 

Y

 

Deferred error handling

 

 

 

Y

 

Delayed motor start

 

 

 

Y

 

Disconnect/reconnect

 

 

 

Y

 

Embedded servo

 

 

 

Y

 

Firmware downloadable via SCSI interface

 

 

 

Y

 

Flag and link bits in control byte supported

 

 

 

Y

 

Format progress indication

 

 

 

Y

 

Full automatic read and write reallocation

 

 

 

Y

 

Hot plugging, with bus active

 

 

 

Y

 

Immediate status on Format Unit command

 

 

 

Y

 

Immediate status on Start/Stop command

 

 

 

Y

 

Immediate status on Synchronize cache

 

 

 

Y

 

Linked commands—customer unique options

 

 

 

Y

 

Low voltage differential SCSI (LVD)

 

 

 

Y

 

Motor start enable

 

 

 

Y

 

Multi-initiator

 

 

 

Y

 

Multi-mode drivers/receivers (single-ended/differential)

 

 

 

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