Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr-rsc!mwandel
From: mwandel@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Markus Wandel)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Ques: how to indicate medium removed
Message-ID: <3333@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 90 22:23:12 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.191040.24715@Matrix.COM>
Reply-To: mwandel@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Markus Wandel)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1990Sep11.191040.24715@Matrix.COM> srm@matrx.matrix.com (Steve Morris) writes:
>
>How does a SCSI drive (Syquest) indicate that the (removable) medium
>is not currently present? Is there something more descriptive than
>receiving the UNIT ATTENTION sense key from a REQUEST SENSE command?

Just do a "test unit ready" command -- that's what it's there for.  Also,
the "mode sense" data has a "media present" bit in it, but that may be only
for tapes.
 
Markus Wandel