User's Guide

Preface

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Notational

Conventions

This manual uses the following conventions:

Caution: Cautions indicate potential hazards to equipment and are

included to prevent damage to equipment. Cautions may

advise you that failure to take or avoid an action could

result in corrupt data or loss of data.

Warning: Warnings indicate potential hazards to personal safety

and are included to prevent injury.

This manual uses the following:

• All binary numbers are succeeded by “b”

• All hexadecimal numbers are succeeded by “h”

• Error or attention conditions are represented in parenthesis that

translate as follows:

(SK=S ASC=AA ASCQ=QQ)

where:

S = hexadecimal sense key value

AA = hexadecimal additional sense code

QQ = hexadecimal additional sense code qualifier

Note: Notes emphasize important information related to the main

topic.

Tech Tip: Tech tips indicate an area that deviates from normal DLT

tape drive or changer behavior.