Code

Name

Description

5h

ILLEGAL REQUEST

The last command sent to the drive or the data

 

 

associated with the command violated conditions

 

 

imposed by the drive on its acceptance. See also

 

 

the Illegal Command, Illegal Field, Fixed Bit,

 

 

Reservation and Parameter List pre-execution

 

 

checks.

ASC/Qs

1A00h, 2000h, 2400h, 2500h, 2600h, 2601h, 5302h, 8283h

6h

UNIT ATTENTION

Indicates some condition of which the host needs

2800h, 290Xh, 2A01h,

 

 

to be made aware. See also the Unit Attention

3F01h, 5DFFh

 

 

check.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7h

DATA PROTECT

A request has been made to modify the media

 

 

 

despite the media being write-protected. See also

2700h, 3000h

 

 

the Media Write check.

 

 

 

 

 

8h

BLANK CHECK

The drive tried to read unwritten tape.

0005h, 1403h

 

 

 

 

9h

VENDOR SPECIFIC

Never returned by HP tape drives

 

 

 

 

 

Ah

COPY ABORTED

Never returned by HP tape drives

 

Bh ABORTED

The drive has stopped trying to act on a

COMMAND

command, usually through some problem on the

 

SCSI bus.

3D00h, 4300h, 4500h, 4700h, 4800h, 4900h, 4A00h, 4B00h, 4E00h

Ch

EQUAL

Never returned by HP tape drives

 

 

 

 

 

Dh

VOLUME

Data could not be written due to lack of

 

 

OVERFLOW

remaining space on the tape. See the WRITE and

0002h

 

 

WRITE FILEMARKS commands.

 

 

 

 

 

Eh

MISCOMPARE

Never returned by HP tape drives

 

 

 

 

 

Fh

RESERVED

Never returned by HP tape drives

 

 

 

 

 

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