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You can determine the cause of and solution for a problem from the indicated sense
key information. The values and meanings of the sense keys displayed most
frequently are given below.
− 02h - Not ready
Medium not ready for formatting. Check to see if the medium has been inserted
into the drive and that it has spun up to speed.
− 03h - Medium error
The disk medium failed. If a failure occurs with a removable-media drive, use
another disk medium. If a hard disk drive fails, it is assumed that the disk itself is
physically damaged. Use SCSISelect utility to check and format the medium.
− 04h - Hardware error
The disk drive failed. Contact the disk drive manufacturer.
− 05h - Illegal request
This card format utility does not support a low-level format of this device.
However, the manufacturer may have already performed a low-level format for
the device.
− 06h - Unit attention
A removable medium may be write-protected. Disable write-protection and
reexecute the utility.
