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Early warning end of medium information is not reported.
If a space records or space filemarks command fails then the sense data
information bytes will be set to the absolute value of the difference between
the requested number of marks/records and the actual number of marks/
records spaced over and the Valid bit set. The residue for a prematurely
terminated Space towards BOM will always be a positive value.
This value will only be accurate if the sense key is
.
Note:
NO SENSE
If the format of the data on tape is corrupt then
status
CHECK CONDITION
is reported. The sense key will be set to
. Additional sense
MEDIUM ERROR
will be set to 3001h (unknown format).
If the drive fails to read data from tape due to either a
or
MEDIUM ERROR
some sort of non fatal drive error then
status is
CHECK CONDITION
reported. The sense key will be set to
Additional sense
HARDWARE ERROR
will be set to 3B00h (sequential positioning error).
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