User's Guide

Chapter 2 Emulated Medium Changer SCSI Commands
Request Volume Element Address (B5h)
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The Request Volume Element Address command reports the element
descriptors found by a Send Volume Tag command. The type of element
(medium transfer, storage, import/export or data transfer) can be
specified in the command as well as the starting address and number of
elements for which status information is to be returned.
The format of the Request Volume Element Address command is
shown in
table 53.
Table 53 Request
Volume Element
Address Command
Bit/Byte 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Tech Tip: The DX-Series system does not support Request Volume
Element Address (B5h).
Operation Code (B5h)
Logical Unit Number VolTag Element Type Code
(MSB)
Starting Element Address
(LSB)
(MSB)
Number of Elements
(LSB)
Reserved (00h)
(MSB)
Allocation Length
(LSB)
Reserved (00h)
Reserved (00h)