User's Guide
Chapter 2 Emulated Medium Changer SCSI Commands
Request Volume Element Address (B5h)
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The page header (bytes 0-7) contains information that defines the 
contents of the element descriptors for the elements of that type. The 
format of a status page is shown in 
table 55.
Table 55 Element 
Status Page
Bit/Byte 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 - X
•PVolTag
•A Primary Volume Tag field value of 1 indicates the Primary 
Volume Tag Information field is present in each of these element 
descriptor blocks
• A value of 0 indicates that these bytes are omitted from the 
element descriptors that follow
•AVolTag
Alternate Volume Tag is not supported. This field is set to 0.
• Element Descriptor Length
This field indicates the number of bytes in each element descriptor.
• Byte Count of Descriptor Data Available
Element Type Code
PVolTag
AVolTa
g 
Reserved (00h)
(MSB)
Element Descriptor Length
(LSB)
Reserved (00h)
(MSB)
Byte Count of Descriptor Data Available
(LSB)
One or More Element Descriptors










