User Guide

6-28 Ampex 1308911-02
Model No.
Running Head
dd2_query_drive DD-2 Utilities Manual Pages
%mda_ssnum MDA board system serial number.
%mda_pwa MDA board pwa number.
%tdcapability Bit mask indicating tape drive capabilities (excluding asterisked
items).
%tdcapability_ex Bit mask indicating tape drive capabilities ( asterisked items only).
%v_tdcapability String indicating tape drive capabilities (all items).
Name Value Strings DST Defaults
DST_CAN_BSF, 0x00000001 ":Can backspace file:" Enabled
DST_CAN_BSR, 0x00000002 ":Can backspace record:" Enabled
DST_CAN_APPEND, 0x00000004 ":Can append to existing files:" Enabled
DST_CAN_SETMK, 0x00000008 ":Can do setmarks:" Not supported
DST_CAN_PART, 0x00000010 ":Can do multiple partitions:" Enabled
DST_CAN_PREV, 0x00000020 ":Can prevent/allow media removal:" Enabled
DST_CAN_SYNC, 0x00000040 ":Can do synchronous mode SCSI:" Enabled
DST_CAN_PEOD, 0x00000080 ":Can detect phys EOD:" Enabled
DST_CAN_SPEOD, 0x00000100 ":Can execute the space EOD
command:"
Enabled
DST_CAN_CHKRDY, 0x00000200 ":Can determine if a tape is present:" Enabled
DST_CAN_VARBLK, 0x00000400 ":Can do variable block sizes:" Not supported
DST_CAN_SETSZ, 0x00000800 ":Can set fixed block size:" Enabled
DST_CAN_SETSP, 0x00001000 ":Can set tape speed:" Not supported
DST_CAN_SETDEN, 0x00002000 ":Can set tape density:" Not supported
DST_CAN_SILI, 0x00004000 ":Can set suppress illegal length errors:" Not supported
DST_CAN_RET, 0x00008000 ":Can retension:" Enabled
DST_CAN_AUDIO, 0x00010000 ":Can do audio over the SCSI bus:" Not supported
DST_CAN_SEEK, 0x00020000 ":Can seek to a particular block:" Not supported
DST_CAN_CHTYANY, 0x00040000 ":Can change density or block:" Not supported
DST_CAN_600POS, 0x00080000 ":Can do DST600 positioning:" 600 only
DST_CAN_DD2POS, 0x00100000 ":Can do DD-2 positioning:" Enabled
DST_CAN_ALTSZN, 0x00200000 ":Can alternate system zones:" Enabled
DST_CAN_RLODENS, 0x00400000 ":Can read low-density:" Enabled
DST_CAN_WLODENS, 0x00800000 ":Can write low-density:" Drive dependent