
REQUEST SENSE Command (03h) SDLT 600 SCSI Interface Guide
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Table 4-129. REQUEST SENSE Data — Field Descriptions
Field Name Description
Valid When set to 1, indicates that the Information field contains valid SCSI-3
information. When set to 0, indicates that the contents of the Information
field are not defined by any command standard.
Response Code A value of 70h indicates a current error; the report is associated with the
most recently received command.
A value of 71h indicates a deferred error; the report is associated with a
previous command and not as a result of the current command.
No other values are returned in this field.
Filemark When set to 1, indicates that the current command read a Filemark.
EOM End of Medium. When set to 1, indicates that an End of Medium condition
(End of Partition or Beginning of Partition) exists. The warning is also given
by setting the Sense Key to NO SENSE and the Additional Sense Code
Qualifier to END OF PARTITION or BEGINNING OF PARTITION.
ILI Incorrect Length Indicator. When set to 1, indicates that the requested
logical block length did not match the logical block length of the data on the
tape medium. Only READ or VERIFY commands cause this bit to be set
to 1.
Sense Key The Sense Key values are described in Table 4-130 on page 4-220.
Information Contains the difference (residue) between the requested length minus the
actual length in bytes, blocks, or Filemarks, as determined by the command.
Negative values are indicated by two’s complement notation. The bytes are
valid for all READ, WRITE, SPACE, and VERIFY commands for which
the drive generated a CHECK CONDITION status.
Additional Sense
Length
Specifies the number of additional sense bytes to follow. If the value in the
Allocation Length field of the CDB is too small to transfer all of the
Additional Sense bytes, the Additional Sense Length is not adjusted to
reflect the truncation.
Command
Specific
Information
Command Specific Information bytes can be logged by the operating system
on error conditions. On tape medium errors, such an entry usually contains
the current SCSI logical block address (LBA).
Additional Sense
Code (ASC)
This field and the Additional Sense Code Qualifier field provide additional
information about the Sense Key and the cause of a CHECK CONDITION
status. Additional Sense Codes are listed in Table 4-131 on page 4-221.
Additional Sense
Code Qualifier
(ASCQ)
This field and the Additional Sense Code field provide additional
information about the Sense Key and the cause of a CHECK CONDITION
status. Additional Sense Code Qualifiers are discussed in Table 4-131 on
page 4-221.
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