Filter
Top Products
5-34 Maxtor Atlas 10K V
5.12 MODE SELECT (6) Command (15h)
SCSI refers to the drive’s operational parameters as its mode parameters. SCSI groups the
mode parameters by function into a set of data structures referred to as mode pages. The
MODE SELECT (6) command allows the initiator to modify some of these mode
pages and thereby control some of the drive’s operational characteristics. The Save
Page (SP) option in the Command Descriptor Block makes the changes permanent.
The new mode parameters are then stored in the drive’s non-volatile memory. The
MODE SELECT CDB is described in Table 5-47 and a description of the fields in
Table 5-48.
Table 5-47 MODE SELECT (6) Command Descriptor Block-Data Format
Table 5-48 MODE SELECT (6) Command Field Descriptions
5.12.1 Initiator-Changeable Mode Pages
Table 5-49 lists the mode pages that are supported by the drive. An initiator can
change these pages by supplying them, with the desired changes included, in the
MODE SELECT command’s data-out buffer transfer.
The initiator should first use a MODE SENSE command to read the appropriate pages
and leave non-changeable values as read when the initiator subsequently writes the
changeable pages with the MODE SELECT command. If a non-changeable field
contains an invalid value, the drive returns a CHECK CONDITION status.
Bit
Byte
7654321 0
0 Operation Code (15h)
1 Reserved PF Reserved SP
2 – 3 Reserved
4 Parameter Length List
5 Control
Data Field Description
PF
Page Format. The drive ignores the content of this field and produces a mode
parameter list that contains a mode header optionally followed by a sector de-
scriptor and one or more pages that conform to the format shown here.
SP
Save Pages. When SP = 0, the drive performs the specified MODE SELECT
operation and does not save any pages. When SP = 1, the drive performs the
specified operation and stores all savable pages, (PS =1 on MODE SENSE re-
turn) including any sent during the data-out buffer transfer. The changes made
when SP = 1 become permanent changes to the drive’s SCSI setup.
Parameter List Length
This field tells the drive how many bytes of Mode Parameters to fetch in the
data-out buffer transfer. A CHECK CONDITION status is returned if this val-
ue truncates a page.