Operating instructions

SEPTEMBER 2005 MAGNUM 1X7 LTO AUTOLOADER
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WHAT THE AUTOLOADER RETURNS
15.3.4 MEDIUM TRANSPORT ELEMENT DESCRIPTOR
The medium transport element is the cartridge loader. The autoloader
contains one cartridge loader, for which it returns the following medium
transport element descriptor.
Element Address – Bytes 00 and 01
This field contains the element address of the medium transport element
(cartridge loader).
Except – Byte 02, Bit 2
The Except (exception) bit indicates the current state of the cartridge loader, as
follows:
0 – The cartridge loader is in a normal state.
1 – The cartridge loader is in an abnormal state and the Additional Sense Code
and the Additional Sense Code Qualifier fields contain information
regarding the abnormal state.
Bit
Byte
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
00 (MSB)
Element Address
(LSB)
01
02 Reserved Except RSVD Full
03 Reserved
04 Additional Sense Code
05 Additional Sense Code Qualifier
06
Reserved
07
08
09 SValid Invert Reserved
10 (MSB)
Source Storage Element Address
(LSB)
11
12
Primary Volume Tag Information
(field omitted if PVolTag = 0)
...
47
48
Reserved
(field moved up if PVolTag = 0)
...
51