Reference Guide

Chapter 4 SCSI Commands
INQUIRY Command (12h)
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Sequential-Access Device Capabilities VPD Page (B0h) 4
Figure 16 and table 26 specify and describe the sequential-access device
capabilities VPD page. This page provides the application client with the
means to determine if the features specified in this page are supported by
the device server.
Figure 16 Sequential-Access
Device Capabilities VPD Page
— Data Format
Table 26 Sequential-Access
Device Capabilities VPD Page
— Field Descriptions
Bit
Byte
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0 Peripheral Qualifier Peripheral Device Type
1 Page Code (B0h)
2 — 3
(MSB)
Page Length (4)
(LSB)
4 Reserved WORM (1)
5 — 7 Reserved
Field Description
Peripheral Qualifier Contains 000b.
Peripheral Device
Type
Contains 01h.
Page Length The
PAGE LENGTH field specifies the length of the following VPD page data. If the
allocation length value in the
INQUIRY command descriptor block is too small to
transfer all of the VPD page data, the page length is not adjusted to reflect the
truncation.
WORM The Write Once, Read Many (WORM) bit indicates if the device is capable of
supporting this mode. This bit is always set to 1.