TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE

4-3.26.3 REWIND Sense Keys

One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated:

SENSE KEY

CONDITION

 

DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

1h

RECOVERED ERROR

1. Recovery was performed when writing buffered data before the

 

 

 

rewind occurred.

 

 

2.

Retries were needed to complete the rewind operation.

2h

NOT READY

Logical Unit was not ready. The tape cartridge was not loaded or

 

 

the logical unit was not made ready.

3h

MEDIUM ERROR

1.

Write of buffered data failed due to a defective tape.

 

 

2.

An attempt was made to write 36-track data on 18-track format-

 

 

 

ted medium.

4h

HARDWARE ERROR

1.

Write of buffered data failed due to a hardware failure.

 

 

2. The rewind operation was not completed because of a hardware

 

 

 

failure.

5h

ILLEGAL REQUEST

1. Illegal parameter was found in REWIND command CDB. The

 

 

 

rewind operation was not performed.

 

 

2.

The Flag bit was set but the Link bit was not set.

6h

UNIT ATTENTION

Indicates the REWIND command was not performed due to one

 

 

of the following:

 

 

1.

The tape cartridge may have been changed.

 

 

2.

The target has been reset.

 

 

3.

The Mode parameters have been changed by another initiator.

 

 

4.

The version of the microcode has been changed (microcode

 

 

 

downloaded).

 

 

5.

A cartridge was loaded with a tape length that is too long or too

 

 

 

short.

Bh

ABORTED COMMAND

REWIND command was aborted. The REWIND command can be

 

 

reissued.

Dh

VOLUME OVERFLOW

Write of buffered data prior to the Read Reverse operation failed

 

 

because physical End-of-Tape has been reached.

 

 

 

 

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