Patent ID: 8051221

Claim:
A communication system that performs data communications based on a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) command defined in the SCSI standard, the communication system comprising: a peripheral device that performs at least one of writing and reading to/from a recording medium inserted into a slot; and an information processing device connected to the peripheral device, including: an operating system (OS) kernel; an adding unit that adds communication data, including an instruction which causes the peripheral device to execute a function, to a free area of inquiry data generated by issuing an inquiry command to the OS kernel, wherein the free area is an area that is preliminarily reserved in an allocation length area of the inquiry data, and wherein the communication data is added in the preliminarily reserved area; and a transmitting unit that transmits the inquiry data to the peripheral device including the communication data added by the adding unit, wherein the peripheral device includes: a receiving unit that receives the inquiry data transmitted by the transmitting unit; and an extracting unit that extracts the communication data added to the received inquiry data.