Subject: RE: REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER/REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:02:23 -0800
From: "Mark Evans" <Mark.Evans@wdc.com>
To: "Ralph Weber" <roweber@IEEE.org>
Cc: <t10@t10.org>
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Hi Ralph,
Thanks for the welcome back.  You'll get to see me in person in just four
days -- ha!  I was a little hasty in my first email, sending it off before I
realized that the related command, SET IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, should also
have a note as to its genesis.
Regards,
Mark Evans
Western Digital Corporation
5863 Rue Ferrari
San Jose,  CA  95138
Email: mark.evans@wdc.com
Office: 408.363.5257
Fax: 408.363.5139
Cell: 408.391.7805
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From: owner-t10@t10.org on behalf of Ralph Weber
Sent: Wed 11/1/2006 12:03 PM
To: t10@t10.org
Subject: Re: REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER/REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
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
	Western Digital Corporation
	5863 Rue Ferrari
	San Jose,  CA  95138
	Email: mark.evans@wdc.com
	Office: 408.363.5257
	Fax: 408.363.5139
	Cell: 408.391.7805