SCSI Sense Codes

Table A-2 below lists all possible SCSI sense keys and their meanings.

Table A-2SCSI Sense Keys

 

 

 

 

SCSI

 

 

Sense

Meaning

 

Key

 

 

 

 

 

0

No sense

 

 

 

 

0x1

Recovered error

 

 

 

 

0x2

Not ready

 

 

 

 

0x3

Medium error

 

 

 

 

0x4

Hardware error

 

 

 

 

0x5

Illegal request

 

 

 

 

0x6

Unit attention

 

 

 

 

0x7

Data protect

 

 

 

 

0x8

Blank check

 

 

 

 

0x9

Vendor-specific

 

 

 

 

0xa

Copy aborted

 

 

 

 

0xb

Aborted command

 

 

 

 

0xc

Equal

 

 

 

 

0xd

Volume overflow

 

 

 

 

0xe

Miscompare

 

 

 

 

0xf

Reserved

 

 

 

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Appendix A