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18 July 2001 T10/1236-D Revision 20The COUNT BASIS field defines the criteria for incrementing the counter. The criteria are defined in table 131.Table 131 — Count basis definitionCount basis000b001b010b011b100b - 111bDescriptionUndefinedPer commandPer failed reconnectPer unit of timeReservedNOTE 42 The per unit of time count basis is device type specific. Direct-access devices typically use a latencyperiod (i.e., one revolution of the medium) as the unit of time.The CAUSE field indicates the reason that the over-run or under-run occurred. The following causes are defined intable 132.Table 132 — Cause field definitionCause0h1h2h3h - FhDescriptionUndefinedBus busyTransfer rate too slowReservedThe TYPE field indicates whether the counter records under-runs or over-runs. A value of zero specifies a bufferunder-run condition and a value of one specifies a buffer over-run condition.The counters contain the total number of times buffer over-run or under-run conditions have occurred since the lasttime the counter was cleared. The counter shall be incremented for each occurrence of an under-run or over-runcondition and may be incremented more than once for multiple occurrences during the execution of a singlecommand.dpANS <strong>SCSI</strong> <strong>Primary</strong> <strong>Commands</strong> - 2 (SPC-2) 179

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