Reference Guide

Chapter 4 SCSI Commands
REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Command (44h)
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Table 159 Medium Type
Descriptor
— Field
Descriptions
36 — 55
(MSB)
Description
(LSB)
Field Description
Medium Type The
MEDIUM TYPE field contains the value returned by a MODE SENSE command
in the Medium Type field in the Mode Parameter Header for the medium type
described in the remainder of the medium type descriptor.
Descriptor Length The
DESCRIPTOR LENGTH field contains the length of the descriptor minus 4.
Number of Density
Codes
The
NUMBER OF DENSITY CODES field contains the number of valid density
codes present in the
PRIMARY DENSITY CODES field.
Primary Density
Codes
The
PRIMARY DENSITY CODES field contains a list of primary density code values
supported by the drive for the medium type. The primary density code values are
listed in ascending order. Any unused bytes in this field contain zero.
Media Width The
MEDIA WIDTH field specifies the width of the medium. This field has units of
tenths of millimeters.
Media Length The
MEDIUM LENGTH field specifies the nominal length of the medium. This field
has units of meters.
Assigning
Organization
The
ASSIGNING ORGANIZATION field contains eight bytes of ASCII data
identifying the organization responsible for the specifications defining the values
in this medium type descriptor.
Medium Type
Name
The
MEDIUM TYPE NAME field contains eight bytes of ASCII data identifying the
document (or other identifying name) that is associated with this medium type
descriptor.
Description The
DESCRIPTION field contains twenty bytes of ASCII data describing the
medium type.
Bit
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Byte