4-3.33.3 Write Filemarks Sense Keys - Fujitsu M2488 Product Manual

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS
4-3.33.3 WRITE FILEMARKS Sense Keys
One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated:
SENSE KEY CONDITION
0h NO SENSE
1h RECOVERED ERROR
2h NOT READY
3h MEDIUM ERROR
4h HARDWARE ERROR
5h ILLEGAL REQUEST
6h UNIT ATTENTION
7h DATA PROTECT
8h BLANK CHECK
Bh ABORTED COMMAND
Dh VOLUME OVERFLOW
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Tape is positioned between the Early-Warning position and End-
of-Tape with Immed=0, all buffered data and buffered filemarks
and new filemarks were written successfully.
1. Recovery was performed when writing buffered data
2. Retries were needed to complete the write of the new filemarks.
Logical Unit was not ready (tape was not loaded or wasn't ready).
1. Write of data or filemarks failed due to defective tape.
2. An attempt was made to write 36-track data on 18-track format-
ted medium.
3. The tape length in the cartridge is too long or too short.
Write of data or filemarks failed due to a hardware failure.
1. Reserved bit was found set in the CDB of the WRITE
FILEMARKS command.
2. Immediate bit set to 1 when not operating in buffered mode.
(Immed = 1, Buffer Mode = 0h)
3. The Flag bit was set but the Link bit was not set.
Indicates the WRITE FILEMARKS command was not performed
due to one of the following:
1. The tape cartridge may have been changed.
2. The target has been reset.
3. The Mode parameters have been changed by another initiator.
4. The version of the microcode has been changed (microcode
downloaded).
5. A cartridge was loaded with a tape length that is too long or too
short.
Attempting write-type operation to a write-protected cartridge.
WRITE FILEMARKS command was aborted.
New filemarks or previously buffered filemarks or data could not
be written to tape because End-of-Tape has been reached.
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April 1997