User Guide

Ampex 1308911-02 6-19

DD-2 Utilities Manual Pages dd2_getparam_drive

DST_ZERO_ON_FM, 0x00002000, ":Set by the O_SYNC open flag:"

DST_ZERO_ON_EW, 0x00004000, ":Report zero bytes for read after FM:"

DST_IGN_FM, 0x00008000, ":Ignore FM on first read after open:"

DST_OPEN_RDONLY, 0x00010000, ":Opened for read only:"

DST_OBSOLETE, 0x00020000, ":obsolete used to be DST_WRITTEN:"

DST_WRITE_PROT, 0x00040000, ":Cartridge is Write Protected:"

DST_OBSOLETE1, 0x00080000, ":obsolete1:"

DST_OBSOLETE2, 0x00100000, ":obsolete2:"

DST_OBSOLETE3, 0x00200000, ":obsolete3:"

ENVIRONMENT

The $TAPE environment variable speciﬁes the tape device to use if the

-f <device_special_ﬁle> option is omitted.

EXIT STATUS

The dd2 utilities use the following exit status codes, and may also produce output to -stdout

on success:

0 Operation succeeded.

nonzero Operation failed.

A nonzero return value describes the error encountered error during processing (see “Exit

Status” on page 6-5).

EXAMPLES

Display the tape drive data block size.

dd2_getparam_drive -stdout "block Size: %blksize"

The above example might produce output like this:

Block Size: 8192