Table 5-84 – Maxtor ATLAS 10K III User Manual

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SCSI Description

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Maxtor Atlas 10K III

Table 5-84

Maxtor-Unique Page-Field Descriptions (Page 39h)

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PS

1

Parameters Savable. This bit is only used with the MODE SENSE command.
A returned value of 1 indicates that the disk drive is capable of saving the
page in a non-volatile, vendor-specific location. The bit is RESERVED with
a MODE SELECT command.

Wait SpinUp

Enable

0

When this field = 0, the disk drive spins up upon power on. When this field
= 1, the disk drive performs a Wait/Spin.

Enable Error

Logging

0

When this field = 0, Error Logging is disabled.
When this field = 1, Error Logging is enabled.

Disable

Parity Check

0

When this field = 0, Parity Checking is enabled.
When this field = 1, Parity Checking is disabled.

Realloca-

tion Uncor-

rected
Errors

0

When this field = 0, reallocation of blocks that have uncorrectable read er-
rors does not take place

When this field = 1, a block that encounters an uncorrectable read error will
be marked for pending reallocation. The block in error remains “as is” for a
possible recovery on a future access. If a subsequent successful read or
write (with readback / compare) occur, the pending reallocation will be de-
ferred. However, it will be “remembered” that an unrecoverable read oc-
curred at one time, and if a second unrecoverable read occurs, the block will
be reallocated on the next successful access. Also, if a subsequent unsuc-
cessful write occurs on a block marked for pending reallocation, the block
will be reallocated.

Enable Fill

Data Pattern

1

When this field = 0, the disk drive ignores any information in Byte 2 of the
FORMAT UNIT command. Note that if the setting in Byte 2 of FORMAT
UNIT is “0”, the disk drive will interpret that setting as “1.”

When this field = 1, the disk drive writes the data pattern that is specified
in Byte 2 of the FORMAT UNIT command into every user-accessible block
when the disk drive executes a FORMAT UNIT command.

Disable

SCAM

1

(Parallel)

When this field = 0, SCAM is enabled. When this field = 1, SCAM features
are disabled.

Disable Unit

Att’n

0

When this field = 0, a UNIT ATTENTION condition exists following power
on or a reset caused by either a BUS DEVICE RESET message or a hard reset
condition.

When this field = 1, the disk drive will not issue a CHECK CONDITION sta-
tus with the UNIT ATTENTION sense key on the first command following a
reset. The disk drive will execute the first command issued after a reset con-
dition.

SSSIE

0

Software Selectable SCSI ID Enable. When this field = 0, the disk drive’s
SCSI ID is determined via the disk drive’s hardware ID select jumper set-
tings.
When this field = 1, the disk drive’s SCSI ID setting is determined by the
value set in the Software Selectable SCSI ID field (Byte 3, bits 0 – 3).

Disable

Auto WRITE

0

When this field = 0, the Auto WRITE function is enabled.
When this field = 1, the Auto WRITE function is disabled.

Disable

Auto READ

0

When this field = 0, the Auto WRITE function is enabled.
When this field = 1, the Auto WRITE function is disabled.

Use Three

Bits for

Delay

0

When this field = 0, Delay Spin is not enabled.
When this field = 1, and Staggered Spin Delay (Bytes 6 & 7) is enabled, the
three lower bits of the disk drive’s SCSI ID are used for the multiplier to de-
termine the length of the delay. When only three bits are used, disk drives
0 through 7 and drives 8 through 15 have the same corresponding delays
since the fourth bit is not used (disk drive 0 has the same delay as disk drive
8, disk drive 1 has the same delay as disk drive 9, and so on).

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