7h—DATA PROTECTION

Code

Meaning

Comments

26 10

Data decryption key fail limit

A SECURITY PROTOCOL OUT command has failed because

 

reached

an incorrect key has been sent to the drive followed by a

 

 

read, and this has happened ten times consecutively.

 

Action:

Further SECURITY PROTOCOL OUT commands will not

 

 

succeed until one of these actions has been taken:

 

 

Unload and reload the current tape.

 

 

Power-cycle the drive.

 

 

Advise the user that they are using the wrong key, or that

 

 

there is a possible security attack.

 

 

 

27 00

Write-protected

This is set if a write operation (WRITE, WRITE FILEMARKS, or

 

 

ERASE) is requested for a write-protected cartridge.

 

Action:

1.

Terminate the current I/O and return the appropriate

 

 

 

error.

 

 

2.

Send a message to the console indicating that the drive

 

 

 

has been trying to write to a write-protected tape.

 

 

3.

Subsequent action depends on the application.

 

 

 

2A 13

Data encryption Key Instance

The drive received a WRITE command from an initiator that

 

Counter has changed

had locked its encryption parameters to a specific Key

 

 

Instance Counter, whose value has now changed.

 

Action:

1.

Issue SECURITY PROTOCOL IN command to find out what

 

 

 

the current encryption parameters are.

 

 

2.

Issue a SECURITY PROTOCOL OUT command to set the

 

 

 

correct security parameters.

 

 

3.

Notify the user of a possible system configuration issue,

 

 

 

since several initiators are trying to control encryption

 

 

 

parameters.

 

 

 

30 00

Incompatible medium

A write-type operation could not be executed because it is

 

installed

not supported on the tape type that is loaded.

 

Action:

1.

Terminate the I/O and return the appropriate error.

 

 

2.

Send a message to the console indicating that writing

 

 

 

is not allowed on the type of tape that is currently

 

 

 

loaded.

 

 

3.

Prompt the user to insert a different tape type.

 

 

4.

Log the incident in the system log.

 

 

5.

The calling application can retry the operation.

 

 

 

30 05

Cannot write medium,

For example, the drive tried to write to a tape of an

 

incompatible format

incompatible generation.

 

 

 

 

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