Tandberg Data SLR7-140 PROGRAMMER Manual page 260

Buffered Mode
Tape Speed
Block Descriptor
Length
Tandberg Data
The Drive supports the following mode: 0 and 1. Mode 0
indicates that the WRITE and WRITE FILEMARKS command
reports GOOD status when the requested data blocks have
been actually written
checked). Mode 1 indicates that the WRITE and WRITE
FILEMARKS command reports GOOD status as soon as the
requested data has been transferred into the Drive's
data buffer
This field specifies
following values are legal:
0h : Default speed
1h : Low speed
2h : Medium speed
3h : High speed
See the MODE SELECT command for further details about
tape speed and the resulting data rates.
This field specifies the length in bytes of the block
descriptor list.
transferred (DBD-bit = 0), the Block Descriptor Length
is set to 8. If
transferred (DBD-bit = 1), the Block Descriptor Length
is set to 0.
15-4 Tandberg SLR Product Line SCSI Functional Specifications
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the block descriptor
Mode Sense
(read-after-write
tape speed.
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