Patent ID: 8020031

Claim:
A method for customizing a SCSI error response received from a SCSI target in a storage network environment, comprising: receiving a SCSI command from a SCSI initiator by a SCSI to ATA bridge; translating the received SCSI command by the SCSI to ATA bridge to provide an ATA command; sending the ATA command to an ATA drive by the SCSI to ATA bridge; executing the ATA command by the ATA drive; determining whether the ATA command was executed successfully by the ATA drive; if not, sending an ATA error response by the ATA drive to the SCSI to ATA bridge; translating the received ATA error response to a SCSI error response by the SCSI to ATA bridge; obtaining a customized SCSI error response using an error look-up table by the SCSI to ATA bridge; and sending the customized SCSI error response to the SCSI initiator by the SCSI to ATA bridge.