Inquiry (12h), Standard inquiry data, Inquiry – Dell PowerVault TL2000 User Manual

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INQUIRY

(12h)

The

INQUIRY

command

requests

that

information

regarding

parameters

of

the

medium

changer

be

sent

to

the

initiator.

The

media

changer

can

provide

two

categories

of

data

in

response

to

an

inquiry

command:

Standard

Inquiry

Data

and

Vital

Product

Data.

Standard

Inquiry

Data

contains

basic

data

about

the

Medium

Changer

and

Vital

Product

Data

can

comprise

several

pages

of

additional

data.

Each

Vital

Product

Data

page

requires

a

separate

INQUIRY

command

from

the

initiator.

An

INQUIRY

command

is

not

affected

by,

nor

does

it

clear,

a

Unit

Attention

condition.

Bit

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

Byte

0

Operation

Code

(12h)

1

LUN

Reserved

Obsolete

EVPD

2

Page

Code

3

(MSB)

Allocation

length

4

(LSB)

5

Control

Field

descriptions:

EVPD:

Enable

Vital

Product

Data.

An

enable

vital

product

data

(EVPD)

bit

of

one

specifies

that

the

device

server

shall

return

the

optional

vital

product

data

specified

by

the

page

code

field.

Note

If

the

EVPD

bit

is

set

to

0,

the

page

code

must

be

00h.

Page

Code:

This

field

contains

the

page

number

of

the

vital

product

data

page

to

be

returned

for

the

INQUIRY

command,

if

the

EVPD

bit

is

set

to

1.

The

following

pages

are

supported:

v

00h

-

Supported

vital

product

pages

v

80h

-

Unit

serial

number

page

v

83h

-

Device

Identification

page

v

C0h

-

Firmware

build

information

page

v

D0h

-

Vendor

Specific

Page

v

FFh

-

Vendor

Use

Only

Allocation

Length:

Specifies

the

number

of

bytes

of

inquiry

information

the

media

changer

is

allowed

to

return

to

the

initiator

during

the

command

s

data-in

phase.

Error

status

is

not

returned

if

the

value

in

this

field

truncates

the

requested

information.

Standard

Inquiry

Data

Bit

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

Byte

0

Peripheral

Qualifier

(0)

Peripheral

Device

Type

(08=Medium

Changer)

1

RMB

(1)

Reserved

2

Version

(5)

3

Obsolete

Obsolete

NormACA

(0)

HiSup

Response

data

format

(2)

4

Additional

length

(43h)

3-4

TL2000

and

TL4000

SCSI

Reference

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