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:
REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER/REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

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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