User's Guide

Chapter 2 Media Changer Commands
Mode Sense (6) / (10) Command (1Ah/ 5Ah)
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03h Conditionally Generate Recovered Error. The device
server reports information exception conditions, if such
reports of recovered errors is allowed, by returning
CHECK CONDITION status on the next SCSI command
(except
INQUIRY and REQUEST SENSE commands)
following detection of the condition. The
Sense Key is
set to
RECOVERED ERROR with an additional sense
code of
5D 00 (TapeAlert Event). The SCSI command
with
CHECK CONDITION completes without error prior
to the report of any exception condition, and does not
need to be repeated.
04h
Unconditionally Generate Recovered Error. The drive
reports information exception conditions by returning
CHECK CONDITION status on the next SCSI command
(except
INQUIRY and REQUEST SENSE commands)
following detection of the condition. The Sense Key is
set to
RECOVERED ERROR with an additional sense
code of
5D 00 (TapeAlert Event). The SCSI command
with
CHECK CONDITION completes without error prior
to the report of any exception condition, and does not
need to be repeated.
06h
Only Report Informational Exception Condition on
Request
. The device server preserves informational
exception data. To access the data, a poll can be taken by
issuing an unsolicited
REQUEST SENSE command. The
Sense Key is set to NO SENSE with an additional sense
code of
5D 00 (TapeAlert Event).
The additional sense code of
5D 00 for values 03h, 04h,
and
06h signals that a TapeAlert event has occurred.
Information about the event is stored in the
TapeAlert
Log Page
. The setting of MRIE does not impact logging
of events in the
TapeAlert Log Page.
Interval Timer Not supported.
Report Count/Test
Flag Number
Report Count or Test Flag Number. This field must be set to 0 unless the
Test bit is set. When the Test bit is set, this field indicates that a test
condition to be generated as follows:
Field Name Description