Scsi Commands; 96122 • Revision: F; Implementation Requirements - Sun Microsystems storagetek sl500 Reference Manual

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C H A P T E R

SCSI Commands

This chapter lists and describes the small computer system interface command
structures for the SL500 library.
TABLE 6-5 on page 88
numbers that contain a description of the command.
Note – This manual does not describe the commands for tape drives. Refer to the
tape drive documentation for information about SCSI commands for a tape drive.

Implementation Requirements

The structure for all command descriptor blocks is:
The first byte contains a:
Group Code that provides 8 groups of commands
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Command Code that provides 32 command codes for each group
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The second byte in all command descriptor blocks:
Starts the command parameters
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Additional bytes:
Contains command parameters
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Last byte in all command descriptor blocks:
Control byte
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Note – The library is SCSI-3 compliant.
For some commands, a list of parameters accompanies the request during Data Out.
For all commands, if there is an invalid parameter in the command descriptor
block, then the device terminates the command without altering the medium.
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