Technical information

HGST Ultrastar C15K600 Hard Disk Drive Specification
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Table 112 BMS Status
BMS Status
Description
00h
No scans active
01h
Background medium scan is active
03h-04h
Not supported
05h
Background scan halted due to medium formatted without P-List
06h
Background scan halted due to a vendor-specific cause
07h
Background scan halted due to temperature out of range
08h
Scan suspended until BMS Interval Timer expires
09h - FFh
Reserved
- The Number of Background Scans Performed field indicates the total number of back ground scans (i.e. total
number of Background Medium Scans PLUS number of Background Prescan) that have been performed over
the life of the drive.
- Medium Scan Progress is a percent complete indication of the medium scan. The returned value is a
numerator that has 65,536(1 00 00h) as its denominator.
- Number of Background Medium Scans Performed field indicates the number of background mediumscans
that have been performed over the life of the drive.
The following table describes the Medium Scan Parameter structure.