Table A-2 SCSI Sense Keys (complete list)

SCSI Sense Key

Meaning

 

 

0

No sense

 

 

0x1

Recovered error

 

 

0x2

Not ready

 

 

0x3

Medium error

 

 

0x4

Hardware error

 

 

0x5

Illegal request

 

 

0x6

Unit attention

 

 

0x7

Data protect

 

 

0x8

Blank check

 

 

0x9

Vendor-specific

 

 

0xa

Copy aborted

 

 

0xb

Aborted command

 

 

0xc

Equal

 

 

0xd

Volume overflow

 

 

0xe

Miscompare

 

 

0xf

Reserved

 

 

Table A-3 Most Common SCSI Additional Sense Code/Qualifier Pairs

SCSI Additional Sense

SCSI Qualifier Code

Meaning

Code

 

 

 

 

 

0x00

0x00

No additional sense information

 

 

 

 

0x01

Filemark detected

 

 

 

 

0x02

End-of-partitions/medium detected

 

 

 

 

0x03

Setmark detected

 

 

 

 

0x04

Beginning of partition/medium detected

 

 

 

 

0x05

End-of-data detected

 

 

 

 

0x06

I/O process terminated

 

 

 

 

0x16

Operation in progress

 

 

 

 

0x17

Cleaning requested

 

 

 

0x01

0x00

No index/sector signal

 

 

 

0x02

0x00

No seek complete

 

 

 

0x03

0x00

Peripheral device write fault

 

 

 

 

0x01

No write current

 

 

 

 

0x02

Excessive write errors

 

 

 

66 SCSI Sense Codes