NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards)

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Doc. No.: PR/97-140
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us

NCITS Announces the Public Comment Period for NCITS 314:199x,
Information Technology - SCSI-3 Medium Changer Commands (SMC)

Washington D.C., November 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) is announcing the public comment period for NCITS 314:199x. Development of this draft standard is being done in Technical Committee T10, I/O Interface - Lower Level.

The public review extends from November 11, 1997 to January 6, 1998.

This standard defines the command set extensions for operation of SCSI medium changer devices, and command set extensions that allow medium changer functions in other types of SCSI devices.

The objectives of the SCSIŠ3 Medium Changer Commands standard are:

- To permit an application client to communicate with a logical unit that declares itself to be a medium changer device in the DEVICE TYPE field of the INQUIRY command response data over a SCSI service delivery subsystem.
- To permit an application client to access the medium changer functions in a logical unit that sets the MCHNGR bit in INQUIRY command response data.
- To define commands to manage the operation of SCSI medium changer devices.

Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us. Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036 (wluk@ansi.org).

A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: NCITS @itic.nw.dc.us

Copies of NCITS 314:199x can be purchased from Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112- 5704. 1-800-854-7179 or 303-792-2181.

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