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The AVAILABLE DATA area indicates the following number of data bytes.
Even if the application does have sufficient space to accept this data, the
AVAILABLE DATA area information is not changed.
The autoloader reports a 2-byte ATTRIBUTE ID for each valid Attribute.
Table 8.10.2.2 : Parameter data for ATTRIBUTE LIST service action
Table 8.10.2.3 : Medium Common Attributes
8.10.3. PARTITION LIST service action
This service action returns the number of Partitions supported by the autoloader
for the specified VOLUME NUMBER. The CDB PARTION NUMBER and
FIRST ATTRIBUTE ID area are ignored. The following table shows the format
of the information reported by the autoloader as a result of this service action.
Table 8.10.3.1 : Parameter data for PARTITION LIST service action
The AVAILABLE DATA area indicates the number of bytes in the data that
follows it. Even if the application does not have sufficient space to accept this
data, the AVAILABLE DATA area value is not changed.
FIRST PARTITION NUMBER indicates the first valid PARTITION in the
specified VOLUME NUMBER.
NUMBER OF PARTITION AVAILABLE indicates the number of valid
PARTITIONs in the specified VOLUME NUMBER.
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0
(MSB)
AVAILABLE DATA(6)
3
(LSB)
4
MEDIUM SERIAL NUMBER(0401h)
5
6
MEDIUM TYPEz(0408h)
7
8
MEDIUM TYPE INFOMATION(0409h)
9
ID
Attribute Name
#Byte
Format
0401h
MEDIUM SERIAL NUMBER
32
ASCII
0408h
MEDIUM TYPE
1
Binary
0409h
MEDIUM TYPE INFOMATION
2
Binary
Bit
Byte
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0
(MSB)
AVAILABLE DATA(2)
1
(LSB)
2
FIRST PARTITION NUMBER(0h)
3
NUMBER OF PARTTIONS AVAILABLE(01h)
