REQUEST SENSE 03h
Commands
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Additional Sense codes
This section contains a list of all the additional sense codes that an HP Ultrium drive can return, in
numerical order. The Sense Keys under which each code could appear are also listed. The ASCQ
bytes are present at bytes 12 and 13 of the sense data.
Code Description Explanation
00 00h No additional sense The flags in the sense data indicate the reason for
command failure.
00 01h Filemark detected A Read or a Space command terminated early because a
filemark has been encountered. The File Mark flag will be
set.
00 02h End of Tape detected A Write or a Write Filemarks command ended in the early
warning area.
or
A command terminated early because End of Tape or
physical end of tape was encountered. The EOM flag will
be set.
00 04h Beginning of Tape detected A Space command terminated early because beginning of
tape was encountered. The EOM flag will be set.
00 05h End of Data detected A Read or a Space command terminated early because
End of Data was encountered.
00 16h Operation in progress An immediate mode command is in progress
00 18h Erase operation in progress An immediate mode ERASE is still in progress
00 19h Locate operation in progress An immediate mode LOCATE is still in progress
00 1Ah Rewind operation in progress An immediate mode REWIND is still in progress
04 00h LUN not ready, cause not
reportable
A tape is present in the drive but is in the process of being
unloaded.
04 01h LUN in process of becoming ready A medium access command has been received during a
load initiated from the front panel or by an immediate-
reported Load command
04 02h LUN not ready, Initializing
command required
A tape is present in the drive but is not logically loaded. A
Load command is required.
04 03h LUN not ready, manual intervention
required
A tape is present in the drive but could not be loaded or
unloaded without manual intervention.
04 07h Immediate mode command in
progress
The tape drive is currently executing an immediate mode
command.
04 10h Media Auxiliary Memory is not
accessible
MAM is not accessible.
0C 00h Write error A Write operation has failed. This is probably due to bad
media but may be hardware related.
0C 0Bh Media Auxiliary Memory write
error
An error has occurred while attempting to write to MAM.
11 00h Unrecovered read error A Read operation failed. This is probably due to bad
media but may be hardware related.
11 12h Media Auxiliary Memory read errorThe Host Attribute area in MAM is invalid.
14 00h Recorded entity not found A Space or Locate failed because a format violation
prevented the target of the operation from being found.
