8.8.3Identifying a Protection Information drive

The Standard Inquiry provides a bit to indicate if PI is support by the drive. Vital Product Descriptor (VPD) page 0x86 provides bits to indicate the PI Types supported and which PI fields the drive supports checking.

Note. For further details with respect to PI, please refer to SCSI Block Commands - 3 (SBC-3) Draft Stan- dard documentation.

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