Chapter 4 SCSI Commands
REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER Command (A3h/05h)
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Table 160
REPORT DEVICE
IDENTIFIER
Command
Descriptor Block — Field
Descriptions
The
REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER
parameter list contains a 4-byte field
that sets the length in bytes of the parameter list and the drive’s identifier.
Figure 147
REPORT DEVICE
IDENTIFIER
— Data Format
Field
Description
Service Action
A service action of 05h identifies this as the
REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER
command.
Allocation Length If the Allocation Length is not large enough to hold all of the parameter data, the
drive truncates the data it returns. This is not considered an error. The actual length
of the parameter data is available in the Identifier Length field in the parameter data.
If the remainder of the parameter data is required, the application client must send a
new
REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER
command with a value in the Allocation Length
field large enough to hold all of the data.
Bit
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Byte
0 — 3
(MSB)
Identifier Length (
n
– 4)
(LSB)
4 —
n
Identifier