HP C737990900 - Manual (Page 136)

136 Commands
Additional Sense Codes
This section contains a list of all the additional sense codes that an HP Ultrium
drive can return, in numerical order. The Sense Keys under which each code
could appear are also listed. The ASCQ bytes are present at bytes 12 and 13
of the sense data.
8h BLANK CHECK The drive tried to read unwritten tape. 0005h, 1403h
9h VENDOR SPECIFIC Never returned by HP tape drives
Ah COPY ABORTED Never returned by HP tape drives
Bh
ABORTED
COMMAND
The drive has stopped trying to act on a command, usually
through some problem on the SCSI bus.
3D00h, 4300h, 4500h,
4700h, 4800h, 4900h,
4A00h, 4B00h, 4E00h
Ch EQUAL Never returned by HP tape drives
Dh
VOLUME
OVERFLOW
Data could not be written due to lack of remaining space
on the tape. See the WRITE and WRITE FILEMARKS
commands.
0002h
Eh MISCOMPARE Never returned by HP tape drives
Fh RESERVED Never returned by HP tape drives
Code Name Description ASC/Qs
Code Description Explanation
00 00h No additional sense
The flags in the sense data indicate the reason for
command failure.
00 01h
Filemark detected A READ or a SPACE command terminated early because a
filemark has been encountered. The File Mark flag will be
set.
00 02h
End of Tape detected A WRITE or a WRITE FILEMARKS command ended in the
early warning area.
or
A command terminated early because End of Tape or
physical end of tape was encountered. The EOM flag will
be set.
00 04h Beginning of Tape detected
A SPACE command terminated early because beginning
of tape was encountered. The EOM flag will be set.
00 05h End of Data detected
A READ or a SPACE command terminated early because
End of Data was encountered.
00 16h Immediate mode command in progress
An immediate ERASE , LOCATE , REWIND or VERIFY is in
progress.