Reference Guide

Chapter 4 SCSI Commands
READ ATTRIBUTE Command (8Ch)
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APPLICATION VENDOR:
Contains 8 bytes of ASCII data (see Attribute
Format on page 242) identifying the manufacturer of the application
client (for example, class driver or backup program), that most recently
sent a
WRITE ATTRIBUTE command to the drive while this medium
auxiliary memory was accessible.
APPLICATION NAME: The name of the application client.
APPLICATION VERSION: The version of the application client.
USER MEDIUM TEXT LABEL: The user level identifier for the medium.
DATE & TIME LAST WRITTEN: Contains when the application client last
wrote to the medium auxiliary memory. The format is
YYYYMMDDHHMM; that is, four numeric ASCII characters for the year
followed by two numeric ASCII characters for the month followed by two
numeric ASCII characters for the day followed by two numeric ASCII
characters between 00 and 24 for the hour followed by two numeric
ASCII characters for the minute with no intervening spaces.
TEXT LOCALIZATION IDENTIFIER: Defines the character set (see table 147)
used for attributes with a TEXT format. At this time, Super DLTtape only
supports the ASCII character set.
Table 147 TEXT
LOCALIZATION IDENTIFIER
— Attribute Values
BARCODE:
The contents of a barcode associated with the medium in the
medium auxiliary memory.
OWNING HOST TEXTUAL NAME: Indicates the host from which the USER
MEDIUM TEXT LABEL
originates.
MEDIA POOL: Indicates the media pool to which this medium belongs.
PARTITION USER TEXT LABEL: A user-level identifier for the partition
specified by the Partition Number field in the CDB.
Field Description
00h No code specified (ASCII)
01h - FFh Reserved