Short Form Block ID

 

 

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

BOP

EOP

LOCU (1)

BYCU (1)

Rsvd (0)

LOLU (0)

PERR

Rsvd (0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

Partition Number (0)

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reserved (0)

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

(MSB)

 

 

First Block Location

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

(LSB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

(MSB)

 

 

Last Block Location

 

 

 

 

11

 

 

(same as First Block Location)

 

(LSB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

Reserved (0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

(MSB)

 

Number of blocks in buffer (0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

(LSB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

(MSB)

 

Number of bytes in buffer (0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

 

 

 

(LSB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Returned data fields:

BOP

0

The current logical position is not at BOM (beginning of media).

 

1

The current logical position is at BOM.

 

 

 

EOP

1

The current logical position is within the EW-EOM region.

 

 

 

LOCU

1

The number of blocks in the buffer is unknown.

 

 

 

BYCU

1

The number of bytes in the buffer is unknown.

 

 

 

LOLU

0

The Partition Number, First Block Location and Last Block Location fields are

 

 

valid.

 

 

 

PERR

0

No position error

 

1

There has been a position error caused by the overflow of some position field

 

 

data.

Partition Number This will always be zero.

First Block

The number of blocks and filemarks from BOM to the current position. Counting starts

Location

at zero, so BOM is block location 0.

 

 

Last Block

Always set to the value of the First Block Location.

Location

 

 

 

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