Chapter 4 SCSI Commands
MODE SENSE (6) / (10) Command (1Ah / 5Ah)
DLT-S4 Interface Reference Guide
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Port Control Page (19h)
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This page contains the parameters that affect SCSI target port operation
options (For Parallel SCSI, see
figure 96
; for Fibre Channel, see
figure 97
;
and for SAS, see
figure 98
).
Figure 96
Parallel SCSI
—
Port Control
MODE SENSE
Page — Data Format
Table 104
Parallel SCSI
—
Port Control
MODE SENSE
Page — Field Descriptions
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0
PS (0)
SPF (0)
Page Code (19h)
1
Page Length
2
Reserved
Protocol Identifier (1h)
3
Reserved
4 — 5
(MSB)
Synchronous Transfer Timeout
(LSB)
6 — 7
Reserved
Field
Description
PS
Parameters Savable. Always set to 0.
SPF
SubPage Format. Always set to 0. Indicates that this page uses the page_0 page format.
Page Code
Identifies the type of
MODE SENSE
page being transferred. A value of 19h identifies
this as the Port Control page.
Page Length
Indicates the number of bytes in the page, excluding bytes 0 and 1.
Protocol
Identifier
A value of 1h indicates that this mode page applies to an SPI-5 compliant port (see the
SCSI Parallel Interface – 5
(SPI–5) standard).
Synchronous
Transfer
Timeout
Indicates the amount of time, in 1 msec increments, that the drive waits for an ACK
during data transfers before performing an unexpected
BUS FREE
operation.