Exabyte 221L, Product Manual

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Tape drive errors associated with the new WORM capability result in either a
Medium Error (Sense Key 3h) or a Data Protect error (Sense Key 7h). The tape
drive returns this error information in response to a SCSI REQUEST SENSE
command. Refer to the tape drive SCSI reference for additional information
about the error codes returned by the REQUEST SENSE command.
Table B-3 shows the new ASC/ASCQ error codes for Sense Key 3h (Medium
Error).
Table B-4 shows the new ASC/ASCQ error codes for Sense Key 7h (Data
Protect).
Table B-3 ASC/ASCQ error codes for a Medium Error (SK 3) with WORM media
ASC ASCQ Description
04h 10h Logical Unit Not Ready, Auxiliary Memory Not Accessible.
11h 12h Auxiliary Memory Read Error
30h 0Dh Medium Error/WORM Medium – Integrity Check : Set when the drive rejects a
Read operation because the current cartridge is a Suspicious WORM cartridge,
and the WTRE bit is set to 0.
Table B-4 ASC/ASCQ error codes for a Data Protect error (SK 7) with WORM media
ASC ASCQ Description
30h 0Dh Data Protect/WORM Medium – Integrity Check : Set when the drive rejects a
Write operation because the current cartridge is a Suspicious WORM cartridge.
30h 0Ch Data Protect/WORM Medium – Overwrite Attempted : Set when the drive
rejects a Write operation because the rules for allowing WORM writes have not
been met.