Troubleshooting & Diagnostics Diagnostic Information

Code

Description

 

 

CDh

Target position missed; position controller went past desired position without

 

achieving objective. MEDIUM ERROR.

CEh

Failure to achieve ATF locking within time-out period. MEDIUM ERROR.

CFh

Failure to reach the target point on tape. MEDIUM ERROR.

D0h

Unexpected physical BOM encountered.

D1h

Failure to position. HARDWARE ERROR.

D2h

Servo command time-out. HARDWARE ERROR.

D3h

Drum took too long to reach speed. HARDWARE ERROR.

D4h

Failure to process one servo event before servo processor sent next event.

 

HARDWARE ERROR.

D5h

Too long between successive servo message events. HARDWARE ERROR.

D6h

Unexpected position counter.

D7h

Calculated supply-reel diameter is suspect. HARDWARE ERROR.

D8h

Tape not available for use. HARDWARE ERROR.

D9h

Tape is threaded; command received which requires no tape to be threaded.

 

HARDWARE ERROR.

DAh

No cartridge in drive; cartridge is expected. HARDWARE ERROR.

DBh

Cartridge present; no cartridge expected. HARDWARE ERROR.

DCh

Time-out when finding Absolute Frame Count of append point. MEDIUM ERROR.

DDh

Initialization error. HARDWARE ERROR.

DEh

Buffer controller detected underflow. HARDWARE ERROR.

DFh

Buffer controller detected overflow. HARDWARE ERROR.

E0h

Buffer controller detected parity error. HARDWARE ERROR.

E1h

Overflow in servo message to main 68000 processor. HARDWARE ERROR.

E2h

System log on tape is unreadable. MEDIUM ERROR.

E3h

Tape either blank or completely unreadable. BLANK CHECK.

E4h

Tape not in valid DDS format. MEDIUM ERROR, with Additional Sense of 3002h

 

(cannot read media, incompatible format).

E5h

Parity error in reading track checksums out of buffer RAM. HARDWARE ERROR.

E6h

Failure in position controller’s internal state machine. HARDWARE ERROR.

E7h

Unable to find target position on tape. MEDIUM ERROR.

EEh

Failed to measure tracking calculation; not enough samples to calibrate time-

 

tracking properly.

F0h

Device command rejected because a previous command failed. HARDWARE

 

ERROR.

F1h

Invalid command sequence. HARDWARE ERROR.

F2h

Invalid tape length.

F3h

Unsupported tape inserted. MEDIUM ERROR.

 

 

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