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INFORMATION TYPE field

The INFORMATION TYPE field (see table 143) specifies the type of information to be reported.

The REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION parameter data format used when the INFORMATION TYPE field is set to 0000000b or

0000010b is shown in table 144.

INFORMATION LENGTH

The INFORMATION LENGTH field indicates the length in bytes of the INFORMATION field. The relationship between the INFORMATION LENGTH

field and the CDB ALLOCATION LENGTH field is defined in 2.2.6.

INFORMATION

The INFORMATION field contains the identifying information that has the specified information type (see table 143).

Table 143 INFORMATION TYPE

Code Description Length Reference

0000000b Peripheral device identifying information

0 to 64 bytes

Table 33

0000010b Peripheral device text identifying information.

65 to 512bytes

Table 33

1111111b Identifying information supported. The parameter data contains a list of sup-

ported identifying information types and the maximum length of each.

0 to 256 bytes

3.32.1

xxxxxx1b Restricted. SCC-2

All other Reserved.

Table 144 REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION parameter data

Bit

Byte

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

Reserved

2 (MSB)

INFORMATION LENGTH (n - 3)

3 (LSB)

INFORMATION. . .