Seagate Ultra 320, Ultra 160 Task attribute messages, Task attribute message overview and codes

get causing an unexpected bus free. The initiator shall accept such action as aborting the WDTR negotiation, and both SCSI devices shall go to eight-bit data transfer mode for data transfers between the two SCSI devices. Any prior synchronous data transfer agreement shall remain intact.

4.3.18.2Initiator initiated Wide Data Transfer Request (WDTR) negotiation

If the initiator recognizes that WDTR negotiation is required, it creates an attention condition and sends a WDTR message to begin the negotiating process. After successfully completing the MESSAGE OUT phase, the target shall respond with a WDTR message or a MESSAGE REJECT message.

If an abnormal condition prevents the target from responding with a WDTR message or with a MESSAGE REJECT message, then both SCSI devices shall go to eight-bit transfer mode for data transfers between the two SCSI devices.

Following a target's responding WDTR message, an implied agreement for wide data transfers shall not be considered to exist until:

a.the initiator receives the last byte of the WDTR message and parity is valid; and

b.the target does not detect an attention condition before the ACK signal is released on the last byte of the WDTR message.

If the initiator does not support the target’s responding Transfer Width Exponent, the initiator shall create an attention condition and the first message shall be a MESSAGE REJECT message. If during the WDTR mes- sage the initiator creates an attention condition and the first message of the MESSAGE OUT phase is either a Message Parity Error or MESSAGE REJECT message, the wide data transfers shall be considered to be negated by both SCSI devices. In this case, both SCSI devices shall use the eight-bit data transfer mode for data transfers between the two devices.

4.4Task attribute messages

Two-byte task attribute messages are used to specify an identifier, called a tag, for a task that establishes the I_T_L_Q nexus. The Task Attribute messages are listed in Table 40. The Tag field is an 8-bit unsigned integer assigned by the application client and sent to the initiator in the send SCSI command request (see ANSI SPI-4, T10/1365D Rev. 8, Section 19.3.2).

4.4.1Task attribute message overview and codes

The tag for every task for each I_T_L nexus shall be uniquely assigned by the application client. There is no requirement for the task manager to check whether a tag is currently in use for another I_T_L nexus. If the task manager checks the tag value and receives a tag that is currently in use for the I_T_L nexus, then it shall abort all tasks for the initiator and the associated logical unit and shall return Check Condition status for the task that caused the overlapped tag. The sense key shall be set to Aborted Command and the additional sense code shall be set to Overlapped Commands Attempted with the additional sense code qualifier set to the value of the duplicate tag (see Section 7.3). A tag becomes available for reassignment when the task ends. The numeric value of a tag is arbitrary, providing there are no outstanding duplicates, and shall not affect the order of execution.

For each logical unit on each target, each application client has up to 256 tags to assign to tasks. Thus a target with eight logical units may have up to 14,336 tasks concurrently in existence if there were seven initiators on the bus.

Whenever an initiator does a physical connection to a target, the appropriate task attribute message shall be sent following the Identify message to establish the I_T_L_Q nexus for the task. Only one I_T_L_Q nexus may be established during an initial connection or physical reconnection. If a task attribute message is not sent, then only an I_T_L nexus is established for the task (i.e., an untagged command).

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