Table 47: Task Attribute

Codes

Description

 

 

 

 

000b

Requests that the task be managed according to the rules for a simple task attribute. See the SCSI

Architecture Model-4 standard.

 

 

 

001b

Requests that the task be managed according to the rules for head of queue task attribute. See the

SCSI Architecture Model-4 standard.

 

 

 

010b

Requests that the task be managed according to the rules for an ordered attribute. See the SCSI

Architecture Model-4 standard.

 

 

 

011b

Reserved.

 

 

100b

Requests that the task be managed according to the rules for a simple task attribute. See the SCSI

Architecture Model-4 standard.

 

 

 

101b-111b

Reserved.

 

 

[2]The Task Management Flags field is defined in Table 48. If a Task Management function fails, the Task Manager shall terminate the task with Good status. The packetized failure code shall be set to Task Man- agement Function Failed.

Table 48: Task Management flags

Codes

Description

 

 

 

 

00h

Indicates no task management requests for the current task.

 

 

01h

The task manager shall abort the task as defined in the ABORT TASK message (see Section 4.5.2).

 

 

02h

The task manager shall abort the task set as defined in the ABORT TASK SET message (see Section

 

4.5.3).

 

 

04h

The task manager shall clear the task set as defined in the CLEAR TASK SET message (see Section

 

4.5.5).

 

 

08h

The task manager shall perform a hard reset to the selected logical unit as defined in the LOGICAL UNIT

 

RESET message (see Section 4.5.6).

 

 

20h

The task manager shall perform a hard reset as defined in the TARGET RESET message (see Section

 

4.5.7).

 

 

40h

The task manager shall perform a clear ACA as defined in the CLEAR ACA message (see Section 4.5.4).

 

 

All other

The task manager shall terminate the task with a Good status. The packetized failure code shall be set to

values

Task Management Function Not Supported.

reserve

 

d

 

 

 

[3]The Additional CDB Length field contains the length in 4-byte words of the Additional CDB field.

[4]The Write Data (WRDATA) bit and READ Data (RDDATA) bit are defined in SCSI protocol standards T10/ 1144D (FCP-2), sections 9.1, 9.1.16, and 9.1.17. They are also discussed in the Seagate Fibre Channel Interface Manual, part number 77767496. These two bits are used by drives in a Fibre Channel I/O sys- tem and shall be ignored by this section.

[5]The CDB field contains the actual CDB to be interpreted by the addressed logical unit. The maximum CDB length is 16 bytes. The CDB field and the task attribute field is not valid and is ignored if the Task

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