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SCSI Commands: 29BREAD ATTRIBUTE
3.17.8.3
MEDIUM TYPE (ID 0408h): and MEDIUM TYPE INFORMATION (ID 0400h): Give
information about non-data media and other types of media. The MEDIUM TYPE
INFORMATION attribute is interpreted according to the type of medium indicated by
the MEDIUM TYPE as shown in the table below.
MEDIUM TYPE
Description
00h
Data medium
01h
Cleaning medium
02h-7Fh
Reserved
80h
WORM medium
81h-FFh
Reserved
NUMERIC MEDIUM SERIAL NUMBER (ID 040Ah): Contains the manufacturer's
serial number for the medium in a vendor specific format. This attribute is
UNSUPPORTED.
Host Type Attributes
Application clients may use the WRITE ATTRIBUTE and READ ATTRIBUTE
commands to maintain the attributes shown below All existent host type attributes
have a status of read/write.
Attribute Identifier
Name
0800h
APPLICATION VENDOR
0801h
APPLICATION NAME
0802h
APPLICATION VERSION
0803h
USER MEDIUM TEXT LABEL
0804h
DATE AND TIME LAST WRITTEN
0805h
TEXT LOCALIZATION IDENTIFIER
0806h
BARCODE
0807h
OWNING HOST TEXTUAL NAME
0808h
MEDIA POOL
0809h
PARTITION USER TEXT LABEL
080Ah
LOAD/UNLOAD AT PARTITION
080Bh-0BFFh
Reserved
APPLICATION VENDOR (ID 0800h): Contains eight bytes of left-aligned ASCII data
identifying the manufacturer of the application client (e.g., class driver or backup
program) that last sent a WRITE ATTRIBUTE command to the device server while
this medium auxiliary memory was accessible.
APPLICATION NAME (ID 0801h): Contains the name of the application client.
APPLICATION VERSION (ID 0802h): Contains the version of the application client.
USER MEDIUM TEXT LABEL (ID 0803h): Is the user level identifier for the medium.
DATE AND TIME LAST WRITTEN (ID 0804h): Contains when the application client
last wrote to the medium auxiliary memory. The format is YYYYMMDDHHMM (i.e.,
four numeric ASCII characters for the year followed by two numeric ASCII
characters for the month followed by two numeric ASCII characters for the day
followed by two numeric ASCII characters between 00 and 24 for the hour followed
by two numeric ASCII characters for the minute with no intervening spaces).
MEDIUM TYPE INFORMATION
Reserved
Maximum number of cleaning cycles permitted
Reserved
Reserved
Reserved
Length
160
160
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Format
8
ASCII
32
ASCII
8
ASCII
TEXT
12
ASCII
1
BINARY
32
ASCII
80
TEXT
TEXT
16
ASCII
1
BINARY
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