13. Appendix F

13. APPENDIX F: AIT based WORM system

13.1.Important Notice

(1)AIT WORM cartridges come equipped with Remote MIC.

(2)A new AIT WORM cartridge can be initialized to use either AIT native mode or DDS emulation mode.

(3)WORM features are supported in AIT tape drives with firmware revision level 0103 or later.

13.2.Write-Protected (WP) Bit in Mode Sense Data

Although the cartridge write-protected activator is permanently set to safe for all WORM media, the WP bit is not used in WORM mode and will be set to ZERO.

13.3.How to detect a WORM cartridge

The WORM bit of AIT Device Configuration Page (31h) is used to indicate the presence of a WORM media.

Page 31h: AIT Device Configuration Page

Bit

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

 

0

Byte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

Reserved

 

 

Page Code (31h)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

Page Length (8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

AIT

DEV

ABS

ULP

PRT

PNJ

 

SYSLOG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

SPAN (0Ah)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

MIC

WORM

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

WORM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13.4.How to initialize a WORM cartridge

A new WORM cartridge can be initialized in two ways:

1.Mode Select Operation

2.Write Operation

Note: when using Write Operation (option 2), a new WORM cartridge will be initialized as one partition DDS emulation mode.

SONY AIT-3Ex drive SDX-800V series Ver.1.1

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