HP Q153090901, Техническое справочное руководство

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Commands 156
It is possible for multiple
UNIT ATTENTION
conditions to arise (for example, after a power-on
followed by a tape load), such that the initiator does not read one condition before the next
occurs. In this case a prioritizing scheme is used. If a
UNIT ATTENTION
condition exists and a new
one occurs, then the
UNIT ATTENTION
sense will be overwritten by the new sense only if the new
sense has a higher priority.
The order of priority is as follows:
U
NIT ATTENTION
sense that arises as a result of a command executing will not be posted to the
sending initiator, but will be set for the other initiators.
DEFERRED ERROR sense
D
EFERRED ERROR
sense is generated when an operation fails and
CHECK CONDITION
status
cannot be reported to the host for one of the following reasons:
• The operation had immediate-report on (for example,
REWIND
with the Immed bit set, or
LOAD
).
• The operation was a write that was immediate-reported on after its data was successfully
placed in the write-behind queue.
• The operation was abandoned without status (that is, a bus release occurred) after what the
drive perceived was a catastrophic error or when an error occurred following the drive’s
honoring of an
ABORT
message. Following the bus release, the drive performed “cleanup”
activity that failed. The Deferred Error refers to the reason for this failure.
When any one of the above occurs, the sense generated will be
DEFERRED ERROR
sense. This sense
persists until the host sends a command that has Unit Attention as part of its pre-execution checks.
When the Deferred Error pre-execution check fails, the
DEFERRED ERROR
sense is moved to the
Current sense and
CHECK CONDITION
status is reported to the host. The host is then expected to
issue a
REQUEST SENSE
command to recover the new Current sense data, otherwise the data will
be lost.
Write-behind deferred errors:
If the Buffered Mode field of the
MODE SELECT
parameter header is not zero, data buffering is
enabled. If an error occurs in flushing the write-behind data,
DEFERRED ERROR
sense is set for all
hosts that the drive thinks have write-behind data in the buffer. For each of these hosts, the
following occurs when its next command is to be executed:
• If the command is
WRITE
or
WRITE FILEMARKS
the
DEFERRED ERROR
sense is copied to
Current sense and the error is changed to a Current error (the Error Code field is set to
70h). The information bytes will contain residue information reflecting the size of the write-
behind queue plus the transfer size of the current command.
CHECK CONDITION
is
Power-on, Reset
Tape Loaded
Mode Parameters Changed
Microcode Downloaded
highest priority
lowest priority