Seagate Viper 200 Scsi Interface Manual page 24

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SCSI Messages and Status Codes
Actions:
1. The Message Out Reject disables the feature and continues. In case of Message
In Disconnect, the drive disables further "Disconnects" on the current command.
In case of Message In SDTR, both the initiator and the drive go to asynchronous
mode. In case of Message In WDTR, the drive goes to 8-bit data transfer mode.
2. The drive goes Bus Free by releasing BSY without sense data set up.
3. The Message Out Abort or Bus Device Reset will result in the drive going Bus
Free and therefore abnormally terminating the command.
4. The drive re-sends the message.
5. The drive posts Check Condition status indicating an Aborted command.
6. The drive rejects the message by Message In Reject and continues its operation.
7. The drive rejects the message by Message In Reject.
8. The drive sends Message In Restore Pointers and retries if retry is not
exhausted.
9. The drive ignores the message and continues.
10. The wide data transfer agreement is negotiated prior to negotiating the
synchronous data transfer agreement.
11. The drive goes Bus Free by releasing BSY with sense data set up.
12. The drive continues the normal process.
13. If the drive is continuing an operation after sending a Message in Reject, the
drive will post Check Condition status indicating an Aborted command (Action 5),
if not, The drive will go Bus Free by releasing BSY without sense data set up
(Action 2).
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