TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE
4-152 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 19974-3.33.3 WRITE FILEMARKS Sense Keys
One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated:
SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION
0h NO SENSE Tape is positioned between the Early-Warning position and End-
of-Tape with Immed=0, all buffered data and buffered filemarks
and new filemarks were written successfully.
1h RECOVERED ERROR 1. Recovery was performed when writing buffered data
2. Retries were needed to complete the write of the new filemarks.
2h NOT READY Logical Unit was not ready (tape was not loaded or wasn’t ready).
3h MEDIUM ERROR 1. Write of data or filemarks failed due to defective tape.
2. An attempt was made to write 36-track data on 18-track format-
ted medium.
3. The tape length in the cartridge is too long or too short.
4h HARDWARE ERROR Write of data or filemarks failed due to a hardware failure.
5h ILLEGAL REQUEST 1. Reserved bit was found set in the CDB of the WRITE
FILEMARKS command.
2. Immediate bit set to 1 when not operating in buffered mode.
(Immed = 1, Buffer Mode = 0h)
3. The Flag bit was set but the Link bit was not set.
6h UNIT ATTENTION Indicates the WRITE FILEMARKS 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.
7h DATA PROTECT Attempting write-type operation to a write-protected cartridge.
8h BLANK CHECK
Bh ABORTED COMMAND WRITE FILEMARKS command was aborted.
Dh VOLUME OVERFLOW New filemarks or previously buffered filemarks or data could not
be written to tape because End-of-Tape has been reached.