Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:03:28 -0600
From: Ralph Weber <roweber@IEEE.org>
To: t10@t10.org
Subject: Re: REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER/REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
X-Message-Number: 7359
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Mark,
Not that it affects your request to note the old command name,
but the name was changed at the explicit request of CAP in
Rob's proposal, 06-221r3 Peripheral device identifying information.
All the best,
.Ralph
P.S. Welcome back!
Mark Evans wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In SBC-3 r07 and SPCs before SPC-4 r07 there is/was a command named 
> REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER.  This is a version of the MAINTENANCE (IN) 
> command with service action REPORT PERIPHERAL DEVICE/COMPONENT DEVICE 
> IDENTIFIER (command code A3h, service action code 05h) defined in 
> SSC-2 r04.
>
> In SPC-4 r07 this command was renamed REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION.  
> I think this may have been an artifact of Paul Entzel's proposal 06-278r0.
>
> One way or the other, SBC-3 should use the new name for the command.	
> I also think it would be helpful to add something like "this command 
> was named REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER in previous versions of this 
> standard" into SPC, and "this command was named REPORT DEVICE 
> IDENTIFIER in previous versions of SPC" into SBC.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Evans
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