Quantum DLT 8000 Product Manual page 202

SCSI Commands
LOG SENSE Command (4Dh) (continued)
Table 5–26 Tape Alert Flags, Severity Levels, and Meanings
Flag
1 Read Warning
2 Write Warning
3 Hard Error
5 Read Failure
6 Write Failure
9 Write Protect
10 No Removal
11 Cleaning
Media
20 Clean Now
* Severity levels are Informational, Warning, and Critical. Informational flags provide a status-type
message, Warning and Critical flags indicate that user intervention and/or service call may be required.
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Severity Level * Meaning
Warning Problems reading data. There is no loss of data, but the tape
drive's performance is reduced.
Warning Problems writing data. There is no loss of data, but the
capacity of the tape is reduced.
Warning An error has occurred during a read or write operation that the
tape drive cannot correct: operation has stopped.
Critical The tape medium or the tape drive is damaged. Contact a
service representative.
Critical The tape medium is faulty or the tape drive is damaged. Test
the tape drive using a known-good tape cartridge. If the
problem persists, contact a service representative.
Critical The tape cartridge is write protected. Set the write protection
switch to enable writing, or use a different tape cartridge.
Informational The tape drive is busy and the tape cartridge cannot be
ejected. Wait for the operation to complete before attempting
to eject the tape cartridge.
Informational The tape cartridge in the tape drive is a cleaning cartridge. For
normal tape drive data-related operations, replace the
cleaning cartridge with a data tape cartridge.
Critical The tape drive needs to be cleaned. Make sure that all tape
operations have completed, eject the data tape cartridge and
follow the appropriate steps to use a cleaning cartridge.
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