SCSI Description
The REQUEST SENSE command causes the drive to transfer detailed sense data to
the initiator. The drive maintains sense data on an individual initiator basis. The data
format and field descriptions are shown in Table 5-172 and Table 5-173 respectively.
T a b l e 5 - 1 7 2 REQUEST SENSE Command Descriptor Block-Data Format
$ K V
$ [ V G
0
1 - 3
4
5
T a b l e 5 - 1 7 3 REQUEST SENSE Command Descriptor Block-Field Description
( K G N F
Allocation
Length
5-132
Maxtor Atlas 10K III
The drives can return a maximum of 18 bytes of sense data. The initiator
should set this field to the maximum value to receive all the sense data.
Operation Code (03h)
Reserved
Allocation Length
Control
& G U E T K R V K Q P