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Standard Medium Type Attributes
Medium type attributes (see Table 4-102) are hard-coded into the medium auxiliary memory at the
time of manufacture. All supported medium type attributes have a status of read only.
MEDIUM MANUFACTURER: Contains 8 bytes of ASCII data (see “Attribute Format” on
page 4-163) identifying the vendor of the media.
Total
Change
Partition
Count
Indicates the number of times that switches to the partition specified by the
Partition Number field in the CDB have been performed on the medium. Must be
set to 0. Super DLTtape media comprises a single volume.
Total
Partition
Initialize
Count
Indicates the number of times that the partition specified by the Partition Number
field in the CDB has been initialized. This count accumulates over the life of the
medium but it is reset to 0 after a medium format.
Table 4-102. Medium Type Attributes (for EMAM) Supported by the SDLT Tape Drive Firmware
Attribute
Identifier
Name
Attribute
Length
Format Details
0400h MEDIUM MANUFACTURER 8 ASCII Page 4-175
0401h MEDIUM SERIAL NUMBER 32 ASCII Page 4-176
0402h MEDIUM LENGTH 4 BINARY Page 4-176
0403h MEDIUM WIDTH 4 BINARY Page 4-176
0404h ASSIGNING ORGANIZATION 8 ASCII Page 4-176
0405h MEDIUM DENSITY CODE 1 BINARY Page 4-176
0406h MEDIUM MANUFACTURE
DATE
8ASCIIPage 4-176
0407h MAM CAPACITY 8 BINARY Page 4-176
0408h MEDIUM TYPE (and MEDIUM
TYPE INFORMATION)
1 BINARY Page 4-176
0409h MEDIUM TYPE INFOMATION 2 BINARY Page 4-176
040Ah -
07FFh
Reserved
Table 4-101. PARTITION USAGE HISTORY Attribute Parameter Data —
Field Descriptions (Continued)
Field
Name
Description
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