Reference Guide

Chapter 4 SCSI Commands
REQUEST SENSE Command (03h)
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Table 172 REQUEST SENSE
Data — Field Descriptions
16 — 17
(MSB)
Field Pointer
(LSB)
18 Internal Status Code
19 — 20 Tape Motion Hours
21 — 24 Power On Hours
25 — 28 Tape Remaining
29 — n Reserved
Field Description
Valid When set to 1, indicates that the Information field contains valid SCSI-3
information. When set to 0, indicates that the contents of the Information field are
not defined.
Response Code A value of 70h indicates a current error; the report is associated with the most
recently received command.
A value of 71h indicates a deferred error; the report is associated with a previous
command and not as a result of the current command.
Filemark When set to 1, indicates that the current command read a Filemark.
EOM End of Medium. When set to 1, indicates that an End of Medium condition (End of
Partition or Beginning of Partition) exists. The warning is also given by setting the
Sense Key to
NO SENSE and the Additional Sense Code Qualifier to END OF
PARTITION
or BEGINNING OF PARTITION.
ILI Incorrect Length Indicator. When set to 1, indicates that the requested logical block
length did not match the logical block length of the data on the tape medium. Only
READ or VERIFY commands cause this bit to be set to 1.
Bit
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Byte