MEDIA CHANGE R COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE
6-16 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997
6-2.4 MOVE MEDIUM M C command A5 h
The MOVE MEDIUM medium-changer command requests that the target move a unit of media from
a source element to a destination element.
6-2.4.1 MOVE MEDIUM CDB Description
MOVE MEDIUM is a twelve-byte command. The bytes are shown below and described in the fol-
lowing paragraphs. Common fields are described in paragraph 4-3.1 on page 4-4.
The device capabilities page (XCL MODE parameters page 1Fh) provides a matrix with the sup-
ported source element or destination element combinations for the MOVE MEDIUM command.
If the move addresses are valid and one of the addresses is the Data Transfer Element, a synchro-
nize operation is performed before the media movement begins.
BITS
BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
010100101
1LUN Reserved
2MSB Transport Element Address
3LSB
4MSB Source Address
5LSB
6MSB Destination Address
7LSB
8Reserved
9
10 Reserved 0
11 Reserved Flag Link
Note: Changeable fields in the CDB are shaded.
Table 6-15. MOVE MEDIUM Field Description
BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION
0 0-7 A5h Operation code.
2-3 0000h or
000Eh This command will only accept Transport element addresses of 0000h (default) or
000Eh (Transport Element address).
4-5 The source address specifies the location that the medium is taken from.
6-7 The destination address specifies the location that the medium is moved to.