IBM T200F manual Preface, Organization

Preface

This publication contains information about how to use and program the IBM Ultrium Internal Tape Drive Models T200 and T200F and the IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive.

Organization

The information in this book is organized as follows:

v“Chapter 1. Introduction” on page 1 describes the tape drives.

v“Chapter 2. Command Support” on page 5 lists the SCSI commands that are supported by the tape drives.

v“Chapter 3. Error Sense Information” on page 87 describes the error sense information for the tape drives.

v“Chapter 4. Sense Keys and Additional Sense” on page 89 describes the sense keys and additional sense information for the tape drives.

v“Chapter 5. Attachment Features” on page 93 describes the features of the SCSI and Fibre Channel tape drives.

Related Publications

v IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive Setup, Operator, and Service Guide, GA32-0415,

tells how to install and run the IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive. The guide also

describes how to administer basic service procedures.

v IBM Ultrium Internal Tape Drive Models T200 and T200F Setup, Operator, and

Service Guide, GA32-0435, tells how to install and run the IBM Ultrium Internal

Tape Drive. The guide also describes how to administer basic service

procedures.

v IBM Ultrium Device Drivers Installation and User’s Guide, GA32-0430, provides

instructions for attaching IBM-supported hardware to open-systems operating

systems. It indicates what devices and levels of operating systems are

supported, gives the requirements for adapter cards, and tells how to configure

servers to use the device driver with the Ultrium family of devices.

v IBM Ultrium Device Drivers Programming Reference, WB1304, supplies

information to application owners who want to integrate their open-systems

applications with IBM-supported Ultrium hardware. The reference contains

information about the application programming interfaces (APIs) for each of the

various supported operating-system environments.

v Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL-2), published by the American National

Standards Institute (ANSI) as NCITS 332:1999.

v Fibre Channel Tape and Tape Medium Changes (FC-TAPE), published by the

American National Standards Institute. Final draft available as T11/99-069v4 on

the web at http://www.t11.org; actual document available from ANSI as NCITS

TR-24:1999.

v Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI, Second Version (FCP-2), published by the

American National Standards Institute and available on the web at

http://www.t10.org.

v Proposed Addition of Read and Write Attribute Commands to SPC-2, available

on the web at http://www.t10.org.

v SCSI-3 Stream Commands (SSC), published by the American National

Standards Institute and available on the web at http://www.t10.org.

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