Protocol Specific Port Page (SPC3)
Mike Berhan
mikeb at bidali.com
Mon Nov 4 09:25:38 PST 2002
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I have been sent trace information from an IBM IC35L146UCDY10-0 SCSI
Disk Device. This is a U320 drive. The CDB being sent to the drive is
a Mode Sense - Protocol Specific Port Page. CDB follows:
5A 08 19 00 00 00 00 80 00 00
The drive returns the first 8 bytes as the mode page header which is
valid. Following the header is the protocol specific port page data.
The first three bytes in this page are:
99 06 00
In looking at the SPC3 R9 specification, the Page_0 format Protocol
Specific Port mode page is defined as follows:
Byte 0: PS, SPF, and then Page Code of 19h in bits 0-5
Byte 1: Page Length (n-1)
Byte 2: Reserved from bits 4-7, Protocol Identifier in bits 0-3
Bytes 3-n: Protocol Specific Mode Parameters
In looking at the first three bytes of 99 06 00, I do get the page code
of 19h (SPF=0), a page length of 6, and a protocol identifier of 0. In
Table 235 of the specification, it defines a Protocol Identifier value
of 0 to be Fibre Channel (FCP-2).
Question: Should the device have returned a protocol identifier of 1h
(Parallel SCSI) or am I not interpreting the specifications properly?
Thank you in advance.
Mike Berhan
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