Standard medium type attributes
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0400h | Medium manufacturer | 8 | ASCII | The name of the manufacturer. | |
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0401h | Medium serial number | 8 | ASCII | The serial number, | |
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0402h | Medium length | 4 | Binary | The length of the tape in meters. A value of 0 | |
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0403h | Medium width | 4 | Binary | 127 The width of the tape in mm | |
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0404h | Assigning organization | 8 | ASCII | Contains the string | |
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0405h | Medium density code | 1 | Binary | The tape density code. | |
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0406h | Medium manufacturer date | 8 | ASCII | The date of manufacture in the format | |
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0407h | MAM capacity | 8 | Binary | The total capacity of the MAM, not its free space. | |
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0408h | Medium type | 1 | Binary | The type of tape: | |
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0409h | Medium type information | 2 | Binary Only meaningful for a cleaning cartridge, where it | ||
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040Ah – Reserved 07FFh
Standard host type attributes
These only exist if they are initialized by an application:
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0800h | Application vendor | 8 | ASCII |
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0801h | Application name | 32 | ASCII |
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0802h | Application version | 8 | ASCII |
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0803h | User medium text label | 160 | Text | The user level identifier for the tape. |
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0804h | Data and time last written | 12 | ASCII | Format is YYYYMMDDHHMM |
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0805h | Text localization identifier | 1 | Binary Defines the character set for the attributes defined as | |
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0806h | Barcode | 32 | ASCII Allows an application server to store the | |
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| medium in the MAM. Format is YYYYMMDD. |
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118 Commands