User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Theory of Operation
- Media Changer Commands
- Overview of Command and Status Processing
- Media Changer Command Descriptions
- Initialize Element Status Command (07h)
- Inquiry Command (12h)
- Load Unload Command (1Bh)
- Log Sense Command (4Dh)
- Mode Select (6) / (10) Command (15h / 55h)
- Mode Sense (6) / (10) Command (1Ah/ 5Ah)
- Move Medium Command (A5h)
- Persistent Reserve In Command (5Eh)
- Persistent Reserve Out Command (5Fh)
- Position to Element Command (2Bh)
- Prevent/Allow Medium Removal (1Eh)
- Read Buffer Command (3Ch)
- Read Element Status Command (B8h)
- Release Element (10) Command (57h)
- Release Unit (6) Command (17h)
- Report Device Identifier Command (A3h)
- Report LUNS Command (A0h)
- Request Sense Command (03h)
- Reserve Element (10) Command (56h)
- Reserve Element (6) Command (16h)
- Send Diagnostic Command (1Dh)
- Set Device Identifier Command (A4h)
- Test Unit Ready Command (00h)
- Write Buffer Command (3Bh)
- Index
Chapter 2 Media Changer Commands
Media Changer Command Descriptions
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Media Changer Command Descriptions
The Media Changer commands are presented in alphabetical order.
Because information about a particular command may span multiple
pages, the command name is repeated at the top of every page that
concerns that command.
Throughout this manual, multiple bytes containing information about
specific command parameters are portrayed as shown in the following
example of the
Parameter List Length field (bytes 7 and 8) of the MODE
SELECT
command:
As shown, this sample indicates that the most significant bit (MSB) of the
field is bit 7 of byte 7; the least significant bit is bit 0 of byte 8.
“
Write Buffer Command (3Bh)” on page 140
3Bh
Bit
Byte76543210
(Bytes 0 - 6)
7 - 8
(MSB)
Parameter List Length
(LSB)
Command Operation Code