0h—NO SENSE

0h—NO SENSE

The following action applies to most additional sense codes in this group:

Action:

For all additional sense codes except 82 82h, the action of the software depends on the current I/O and what the operating system has been expecting. Recovery depends on the operating system. As a minimum, the software should pass an error to the calling application indicating the positional mark that has been encountered. The I/O can be retried if desired.

Code

Meaning

Comments

00 00

No additional sense

The drive has no additional sense information for the

 

 

host. The flags in the sense data indicate the reason for

 

 

failure.

 

Action:

see above

 

 

 

00 01

Filemark detected

This indicates one of the following:

 

 

A READ or SPACE command was terminated early

 

 

because a filemark was encountered.

 

 

Unsolicited Positional Sense has been set to indicate

 

 

“at a filemark”.

 

 

The Mark bit in the sense data will always be set.

 

Action:

see above

 

 

 

00 02

End of Tape detected

A command completed early because End of Tape or the

 

 

physical end of the tape was encountered.

 

 

The EOM flag in the sense data will be set.

 

Action:

see above

 

 

 

00 04

Beginning of Tape detected

BOT was encountered during a space command.

 

 

 

00 16

Operation in progress

The command is in progress and has not yet completed.

00 18

Erase operation in progress

This could be because another host initiated the

00 19

Locate operation in

command; or the command was sent in immediate

00 1A

progress

mode. The Sense Key Specific Value field in the sense

 

Rewind operation in

data will give some indication of how far the operation

 

progress

has progressed.

 

Action:

Either wait for the command to complete, or poll again

 

 

to see how it is progressing.

 

 

 

82 82

Drive requires cleaning

The drive has detected that the heads need to be

 

 

cleaned to maintain good operation.

 

Action:

Optionally, log the occurrence for information. It will not

 

 

be considered an error and the software will continue.

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