MODE SENSE

MODE SELECT

Current Power-on The number of times the drive has been

Ignored

Count

powered on

 

 

 

 

Power-on Time

The number of seconds since the drive

Ignored

 

has been powered on

 

 

 

 

World Time

The number of seconds from 00:00:00

Ignored if WT = 0

 

on January 1, 1970

 

 

 

 

UTC

0 The local timezone has been used.

Ignored if WT is 0

 

1h World Time is UTC.

Set to 1 if UTC World Time is being used.

 

 

 

 

 

NTP

0 Unsure if NTP-synced

Ignored if WT is 0

 

1h World Time is set from NTP source.

Set to 1 if World Time is NTP-synced.

 

 

 

Library Time

The time in hrs:mins:secs set by the

Ignored

 

library controller

 

 

 

 

CD-ROM Emulation/Disaster Recovery mode page

This page can be used irrespective of whether the drive is acting as a tape or a CD device.

 

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

 

 

 

Page Code {3Eh}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

Page Length {02h}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

Reserved (0)

 

 

Non-Auto

CDmode

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

Reserved (0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD-ROM Emulation/Disaster Recovery mode page fields:

Non-Auto

When a system restarts after booting off tape, the drive detects the SCSI resets issued

 

during reboot and, in conjunction with knowing that more than 100 blocks have been

 

read in CD-ROM emulation mode, will revert back to behaving as a tape device. This is

 

the standard method by which the drive automatically reverts to being a tape drive in

 

order that a backup application can do file system recovery. The method of reversion

 

involves a firmware reboot, so the drive might become unavailable for a few seconds

 

during its “power-on” following the SCSI reset. (Note that normal SCSI reset response does

 

not involve a firmware reboot).

 

Setting this flag to 1 inhibits this automatic return to tape drive behavior; the drive will

 

remain in CD-ROM mode irrespective of blocks read and SCSI resets.

 

 

 

CDmode

MODE SENSE

0 The drive is in tape drive mode.

 

 

1 The drive is in CD-ROM emulation mode.

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