Look-Ahead Operation, Look-Ahead Volume - Fujitsu MAX3073NC - SCSI,80, Dell DC961,Hard Drive Scsi Logical Interface Specifications

Data Buffer Management
2.2.3

Look-Ahead operation, Look-Ahead volume

1) Excluding the conditions in 3) and 4) for the amount of data specified as the minimum pre-fetch
volume, data are read for look-ahead irrespective of track boundaries or cylinder boundaries.
Commands which are already in the queue or commands which are newly received while a look-
ahead operation is in progress, are executed after the look-ahead operation is completed. However,
if the new command is a READ or READ EXTENDED command, and it is a command in which the
first specified logical data block is a sequential access data block, the command is executed without
the look-ahead operation being halted. When a newly received command is a command which is not
the object of caching, that command is executed immediately in parallel with a look-ahead operation.
Also, in the case of a command which disables all data which are objects of caching (see Section
2.2.1 (3)), the look-ahead operation is halted and that command is executed immediately.
2) When commands exist in the queue, the look-ahead operation is halted at the point when reading of
the specified amount of data at the minimum pre-fetch volume is completed, then execution of the
new command starts. When there are no commands that need to be newly executed, the data look-
ahead operation is continued, even after the volume of data specified as the minimum amount of pre-
fetch data have been read, until one of the following conditions, 1), 3) or 4), occurs.
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When "1" is specified in the DISC bit, if look-ahead of data equal in volume to a cache segment
is completed.
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When "0" is specified in the DISC bit, if look-ahead of all the data is completed up to the track
boundary or the cylinder boundary.
The IDD does not support this function.
3) During a data look-ahead operation, when any error occurs, the data look-ahead operation is
terminated at that point (retry is not executed).
4) When a RESET condition occurs on the SCSI bus, or when any INIT issues a TARGET RESET
message, the look-ahead operation is terminated at that point and all the look-ahead data stored in the
data buffer are invalidated.
5) During a look-ahead operation, if "sector slip processing" is applied, or defective sectors exist in the
same cylinder to which "alternate processing" is applicable, the look-ahead operation is continued
without interruption.
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