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Chapter 3 Media Changer Commands
Read Element Status Command (B8h)
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Table 55 Element
Status Data
5-7
(MSB)
Byte Count Of Report Available
(all pages, n-7)
(LSB)
8-n
Element status page(s)
Note:
The READ ELEMENT STATUS command can be issued
with an Allocation Length of eight bytes in order to
determine the Allocation Length required to transfer all
the element status data specified by the command.
Field Name
Description
First Element
Address
Reported
Indicates the element address of the element with the
smallest element address found to meet the CDB
request.
Number Of
Elements
Available
Indicates the number of elements meeting the request
in the command descriptor block. The status for these
elements is returned if sufficient Allocation Length
was specified.
Byte Count
Of Report
Available
Indicates the number of bytes of element status page
data available for all elements meeting the request in
the command descriptor block. This value shall not be
adjusted to match the Allocation Length available.
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
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