User's Guide

Chapter 2 Emulated Medium Changer SCSI Commands
Read Element Status (B8h)
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• Element Address
This field indicates the address of the element being reported by that
element descriptor.
• Access
• An access bit value of 1 indicates that access to the element by a
medium transport element is allowed
• The access bit may be set to 0 or 1 for the bins in the 2 removable
packs
• Access bit is always set to 1 for the other non-removable bins in
the system
• Except
• When the element is in a normal state, it is set to 0
• When the element is in an abnormal state, it is set to 1
• Information on the abnormal state is available in the Additional
Sense Code and Additional Sense Code Qualifier fields in the
element descriptor. For the meaning of the codes contained in the
two Sense Code fields, see
Request Sense (03h) on page 75.
•Full
•The Full field is set to 1 whenever the element contains a tape
cartridge
• It is set to 0 otherwise
• Additional Sense Code and Additional Sense Code Qualifier
10
Source Storage Element Address
11
12 - 47
Primary Volume Tag Information
(Field omitted if PVolTag = 0)
48 - 51
Reserved (00000000h)
52
Vendor Unique (0000h)
53
Bit/Byte76543210