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Rewind 01h, Rewind 01h 14 – HP C737990900 User Manual

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144 Commands

REWIND 01h

R

EWIND

tells the drive to position the tape at BOM (beginning of media).

Before rewinding, the drive writes any write-behind data in the buffer to tape.

Once a rewind is started, it will complete even if the SCSI operation is aborted

(for example, if the host selects and sends an abort message).

Pre-Execution Checks:

Command Descriptor Block:

CDB Fields:

Rewind Specific Status:

If the rewind is successful, unsolicited positional sense will indicate that the

tape is at BOM by the EOD bit being set and an additional sense code of

0004h (BOP).

Illegal Field

Reservation

Deferred Error

Unit Attention

Media Access

Diagnostic Status

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

0

Operation Code (01h)

1

Reserved (0)

Immed

2

Reserved (0)

4
5

Control

Immed

0 Status is returned after the rewind has completed.
1 The drive first writes any unwritten buffered data to tape. It then returns

GOOD status to the host before beginning the actual rewind operation.