N Get Scsi Status And Sense; O Library Mode Sense - Spectra Logic Spectra 10000 User Manual

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beginning of the tape and unloads from the tape path. The media is not moved from the
drive until a
source location.
Errors:
The library returns
sense code is valid. The host must issue a
data.

N Get SCSI Status and Sense

This command returns the status byte and all available sense data for the most recent
SSCL,
Format
N SCSI_ID <CR>
The format of the return data is listed below:
Status Byte, SCSI Sense Byte 0,...,n, SCSI Sense Byte
The status byte can have four possible values:
•
0: Success status.
•
2: Attention condition, sense data follows.
•
8: SCSI device returned busy status.
•
18: SCSI reservation conflict status.
The number of sense bytes returned is determined by the amount of sense data available
from the target SCSI device.
To access drives on the second SCSI bus, add a 16 to the SCSI ID. For
Note:
example, N 18,0,0,0,0,0,0<CR> with the SCSI ID of 2.

O Library Mode Sense

The
Library Mode Sense
Appendix B of the Spectra 10000 User's Guide for a detailed list of sense code information.
command is issued to the library with the tape drive as the
Move Media
to indicate an error condition. Following
NAK
, , or commands for the SCSI ID selected.
B C V
command returns vendor-unique status information. See
NAK
command to receive the sense
Request Sense
, the library