respond with GOOD status to a request to space to EOD, and with CHECK CONDITION to any other forward spacing request. Additional sense is set to 1403h (End of data not found).
•Early warning end of medium information is not reported.
•If a space records or space filemarks command fails then the sense data information bytes will be set to the absolute value of the difference between the requested number of marks/ records and the actual number of marks/records spaced over and the Valid bit set. The residue for a prematurely terminated Space towards BOM will always be a positive value. NOTE: This value will only be accurate if the sense key is NO SENSE.
•If the format of the data on tape is corrupt then CHECK CONDITION status is reported. The sense key will be set to MEDIUM ERROR. Additional sense will be set to 3001h (unknown format).
•If the drive fails to read data from tape due to either a MEDIUM ERROR or some sort of non fatal drive error then CHECK CONDITION status is reported. The sense key will be set to HARDWARE ERROR Additional sense will be set to 3B00h (sequential positioning error).
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