OEM MANUAL:K6602594
6 SENSE DATA
Revision: 1 / Date: 2003.03.06
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Table 6.6 Progress Indication
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
15
SKSV
Reserved
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
Progress Indication (MSB)
17
Progress Indication (LSB)
When the sense key is NOT READY and the SKSV bit is set to 1, the Sense-Key
Specific field (Byte 15-17) defines the contents as shown in Table 6.6.
Progress Indication gives a general indication of the amount of progress made
during
format. This returned value is the numerator of a fraction whose denominator is
65536.
A Progress Indication of 0000
H
indicates that Format Unit is not started.
A Progress Indication of FFCC
H
or greater (up to FFFF
H
) indicates that Format
Unit
completed.
6.2
SENSE DATA SET / RESET CONDITIONS
The sense data is managed for each LUN and host computer. Accordingly, the
controller can execute commands issued from other host computers without clearing
any pending sense data for the current host computer. If the tagged command,
however, is used, the controller sometimes stops executing the command from the
other host computers.
6.2.1 SETTING CONDITIONS
Sense data is loaded whenever a condition that needs the report of sense data
occurs. It is valid for the CHECK CONDITION status set during the execution of
the preceding command. For catastrophic errors (see 3.4 SCSI BUS ERROR
CONDITIONS), however, sense data is generated even if no CHECK CONDITION
status is presented.
6.2.2 RESETTING CONDITIONS
The sense data is retained within the controller until one of the following
conditions occurs :