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SCSI Commands
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REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Command (44h) (continued)
Table 5–82 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Command — Field Descriptions
Data Field
Description
Media
When this bit = 0, it indicates that the device server will return density
support data blocks for densities supported by the logical unit for
any
supported media
.
When this bit = 1, it indicates that the device server will return density
support data blocks for densities supported by the
mounted medium
.
Allocation
Length
This value in this field specifies the maximum number of bytes that the
device server may return.
The REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT command returns a header followed by one or more
density support data blocks. The data blocks are presented in ascending numerical order
of the primary density code value.
The figure below illustrates the REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT header.
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0 - 1
(MSB)
Available Density Support Length
(LSB)
2 - 3
Reserved
4 - n
Density Support Data Block Descriptors
Figure 5–85 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Header — Data Format
The following table provides a description of the Available Density Support Length field;
the Density Support Data Block Descriptors field has a separate illustration and
description table.
Summary of Contents for DLTtape DLT 8000
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