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What is unsolicited status?

Q: What is SBP2 unsolicited status used for?

A: Unsolicited status is used by the device to report any status change in the device that was not in response to your driver performing some action, or any status that cannot be reported as normal command object (ORB) status.

For instance, if your device is both bus powered and self powered, it could use unsolicited status to report that its power was removed, and now it was operating on bus power only. A device could report a manual ejection of the media, power status, or any asynchronous event.

[May 17 1999]

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