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SCSI Commands Reference Manual, Rev. J 418
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The device server shall use the values in the INTERVAL TIMER field and the REPORT COUNT field based on the value in the MRIE
field as shown in table 392.
Maintaining the interval timer and the report counter across power cycles, hard resets, logical unit resets, and I_T nexus losses by
the device server is vendor specific.
Table 392 Use of the INTERVAL TIMER field and the REPORT COUNT field based on the MRIE field
MRIE
[a]
Description
2h to 6h
If reporting of an informational exception condition is enabled (see table 391), then the device server shall:
1) report an informational exception condition when the condition is first detected; and
2) if the value in the REPORT COUNT field is not equal to one, then:
1. if the INTERVAL TIMER field is not set to zero or FFFF_FFFFh, then wait the time specified in the INTER-
VAL TIMER field, and, if that informational exception condition still exists, report the informational
exception again; and
2. while the informational exception condition exists, continue to report the informational exception con-
dition after waiting the time specified in the INTERVAL TIMER field until the condition has been reported
the number of times specified by the REPORT COUNT field.
Ch to Fh
The device server may use or may ignore the values in the INTERVAL TIMER field and the REPORT COUNT field to
report the informational exception condition based on the device specific implementation.
[a] For values in the MRIE field (see table 390) not shown in this table, the INTERVAL TIMER field and the REPORT COUNT
field shall be ignored.