Report Density Support - Sony DDS-4 Product Description Manual

6. COMMAND SPECIFICATION
6. 16 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 ONE 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 ZERO 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
1
2
3
6 - 68 SONY SDT-10000/SDT-11000 DDS Tape Drive
6 5 4
Operation Code (44h)
Reserved
Allocation Length
REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT header
6 5 4
Available Density Support Length (00h)
3 2
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
3 2
(D2h (MEDIA=0) or 36 (MEDIA=1))
Reserved
Reserved

REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT

1 0
MEDIA
(LSB)
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1 0