Report Density Support 44H - Sony SDX-700C Product Specifications Manual

6.Command Specification

6.18. REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT 44h

Bit 7
Byte
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 (MSB)
8
9 Unused (00b)
REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT provides information regarding the supported densities for the logical unit be sent to
application client.
MEDIA : The MEDIA bit of ZERO indicates that the drive shall return density support data block for densities
supported by the logical unit for any supported media. The data returned by the drive shall be static if the MEDIA bit
is ZERO. The MEDIA bit of ONE indicates that the drive shall return density support data block for densities
supported by the mounted medium. If the MEDIA bit is ONE and the logical unit is not in the ready state, CHECK
CONDITION status shall be returned . The sense key shall be sent to NOT READY.
The Allocation Length field specifies the maximum number of bytes that the drive may return.
The REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT command returns the REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT header followed by one
DENSITY SUPPORT data block. The Density support data blocks shall be in numerical ascending order of the
primary density code value for each block.
Bit 7
Byte
0 ( MSB )
1
2
3
Available Density Support Length : This field specified the number of bytes in the following data that is available to
be transferred. The Available density support length does not include itself.
Table 67 – REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT data block descriptor
Bit 7
Byte
0
1
2
WRTOK(1)
3
4
5 (MSB)
7
8 (MSB)
9
10 (MSB)
6-84
6 5
Operation Code (44h)
Reserved
Table 66 – REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT header
6 5
Available Density Support Length
6 5
PRIMARY DENSITY CODE ( 30 h )
SECONDARY DENSITY CODE ( 30 h)
DUP(0) DEFLT(1)
BITS PER MM ( 00 11 D7 h )
MEDIA WIDTH (00 50 h)
4 3
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Allocation Length
Reserved
4 3
Reserved ( 00h )
Reserved ( 00h )
4 3
Reserved (00h)
Reserved (00h)
Reserved (00h)
TRACKS ( 00 01 h )
SONY AIT-3 drive SDX-700 series Ver.2.1
REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT
2 1
MEDIA
(LSB)
Flag Link
2 1
( LSB )
2 1
(LSB)
(LSB)
0
0
0