Additional Sense codes
This section contains a list of all the additional sense codes that an HP Ultrium drive can return, in numerical order. The Sense Keys under which each code could appear are also listed. The ASCQ bytes are present at bytes 12 and 13 of the sense data.
Code | Description | Explanation |
00 00h | No additional sense | The flags in the sense data indicate the reason for |
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| command failure. |
00 01h | Filemark detected | A Read or a Space command terminated early because a |
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| filemark has been encountered. The File Mark flag will be |
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| set. |
00 02h | End of Tape detected | A Write or a Write Filemarks command ended in the early |
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| warning area. |
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| or |
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| A command terminated early because End of Tape or |
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| physical end of tape was encountered. The EOM flag will |
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| be set. |
00 04h | Beginning of Tape detected | A Space command terminated early because beginning of |
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| tape was encountered. The EOM flag will be set. |
00 05h | End of Data detected | A Read or a Space command terminated early because |
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| End of Data was encountered. |
00 16h | Operation in progress | An immediate mode command is in progress |
00 18h | Erase operation in progress | An immediate mode ERASE is still in progress |
00 19h | Locate operation in progress | An immediate mode LOCATE is still in progress |
00 1Ah | Rewind operation in progress | An immediate mode REWIND is still in progress |
04 00h | LUN not ready, cause not | A tape is present in the drive but is in the process of being |
| reportable | unloaded. |
04 01h | LUN in process of becoming ready A medium access command has been received during a | |
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| load initiated from the front panel or by an immediate- |
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| reported Load command |
04 02h | LUN not ready, Initializing | A tape is present in the drive but is not logically loaded. A |
| command required | Load command is required. |
04 03h | LUN not ready, manual intervention A tape is present in the drive but could not be loaded or | |
| required | unloaded without manual intervention. |
04 07h | Immediate mode command in | The tape drive is currently executing an immediate mode |
| progress | command. |
04 10h | Media Auxiliary Memory is not | MAM is not accessible. |
| accessible |
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0C 00h | Write error | A Write operation has failed. This is probably due to bad |
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| media but may be hardware related. |
0C 0Bh | Media Auxiliary Memory write | An error has occurred while attempting to write to MAM. |
| error |
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11 00h | Unrecovered read error | A Read operation failed. This is probably due to bad |
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| media but may be hardware related. |
11 12h | Media Auxiliary Memory read errorThe Host Attribute area in MAM is invalid. | |
14 00h | Recorded entity not found | A Space or Locate failed because a format violation |
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| prevented the target of the operation from being found. |
Commands
REQUEST SENSE 03h 159