Fujitsu M2488 - Manual

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN vii 4-3.16.2 READ BUFFER Sense Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74 4-3.17 READ POSITION command 34h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE viii C144-E019-03EN 4-3.24.1 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT CDB Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-105 4-3.24.2 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-106 4-3.24.3 REPORT DENSITY SU...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN ix 4-3.33.2 WRITE FILEMARKS CHECK CONDITION Status . . . . . . . . . . 4-151 4-3.33.3 WRITE FILEMARKS Sense Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-152 4-4 COMMAND DISCONNECTION . . ....

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN xi 8 MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1 8-1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE xii C144-E019-03EN 8-9 TAPE PATH CLEANING PROCEDURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-35 8-10 MANUAL TAPE REMOVAL PROCEDURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN xiii 8-11.13 WTL PCBA Remove and Replace Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-55 8-11.13.1 WTL PCBA Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5...

TABLE OF CONTENTS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS - CONTINUED CHAPTER TITLE PAGE xiv C144-E019-03EN H-4.3.2 LOAD/UNLOAD: Two diagnostic tests to check loading and unloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H-5 H-4.3.3 ACL...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF FIGURES C144-E019-03EN xv LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE TITLE PAGE Figure 1-1. IPM Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 Figure 1-2. Cable and Power Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

LIST OF FIGURES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF FIGURES - CONTINUED FIGURE TITLE PAGE xvi C144-E019-03EN Figure 8-6. Top Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-46 Figure 8-7. Bottom Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES C144-E019-03EN xvii LIST OF TABLES TABLE TITLE PAGE Table 1-1. Rack-mount Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Table 1-2. Desktop Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

LIST OF TABLES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE xviii C144-E019-03EN Table 4-35. Log Sense Page 00h, Supported Log Pages (default) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37 Table 4-36. Log Sense Page 00h, Supported Log Pages * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN xix Table 4-77. Diagnostic Page Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-85 Table 4-78. Receive Diagnostic Results Page, General Form . . . . . . ...

LIST OF TABLES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE xx C144-E019-03EN Table 4-118. Page 00h - Supported Diagnostic Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-127 Table 4-119. Page 80h - Online Diagnostic Test Page . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN xxi Table 5-25. INQUIRY Data Format VPD Page 82h Field Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21 Table 5-26. INQUIRY Data Format VPD Page C0h - Unit Usage Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

LIST OF TABLES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE xxii C144-E019-03EN Table 6-37. Page Code 00 - Device Unique Parameters Field Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-33 Table 6-38. Mode Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE C144-E019-03EN xxiii Table 8-22. Operator Panel Top Level Menus - Factory Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-28 Table 8-23. Factory Menu Options and Settings Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

LIST OF TABLES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE LIST OF TABLES -CONTINUED TABLE TITLE PAGE xxiv C144-E019-03EN Table G-1. SCSI Transfer Rates for 20 MHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G-1

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-1 CHAPTER 1 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 1-1 INTRODUCTION This chapter contains information on installing the M2488 tape drive and optional equipment. This chapter is divided into the following major paragraphs: 1-2 PREPAR...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-3.1 Rack-mount There are three configurations for the rack-mount M2488 drive. Refer to Table 1-1 for the assembly instructions to use with your configuration. Table 1-1. Rack-mount Configurations CONFIGURATION EQUIP...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-3 1-3.2 Desktop There are three desktop configurations for the M2488 drive. Refer to Table 1-2 for the assembly instructions to use with your configuration. Table 1-2. Desktop Configurations CONFIGURATION EQUIPMENT REQU...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-4 UNPACKING INSTRUCTIONS Use the following procedures to unpack the M2488 tape drive and its optional equipment. When the equipment is unpacked, proceed to the inspection procedures in paragraph 1-5. 1-4.1 Unpack th...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-5 1-4.2 Unpack the Automatic Cartridge Loader Unpack the ACL as described below. 1. Carefully remove the ACL from the packing material and place on flat work surface. 2. Verify contents of package and accessory kit to t...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-6 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-4.3 Unpack the Flush-mounted Automatic Cartridge Loader Unpack the FACL as described below. 1. Carefully remove the FACL from the packing material and place on flat work surface. 2. Verify contents of package and th...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-7 1-5 EQUIPMENT INSPECTION After unpacking, inspect the equipment. If any damage is found, note the type of damage and location. Also note any damage to the packing container. Contact your carrier for further instructio...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-8 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6 ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS These paragraphs describe the assembly and installation of the M2488 tape drive and of the optional equipment. Use the following flowchart to determine which procedures are applicable to your...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-9 1-6.1 General Installation and Assembly Instructions 1-6.1.1 Air Flow and Service Clearances Allow a gap of 50 mm (2 inches) at the rear of the drive for heat dissipation. Allow a 620 mm (24 inches) servicing area to ...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6.3 Cable and Power Connections Installation of the SCSI cables and power cord are described in the following paragraphs. The SCSI connectors are described in the User’s Guide, Chapter 1. ** NOTE ** 1. Cable and po...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-11 1-6.4 Desktop Installation Instructions Use the procedure below for your configuration. When completed, continue with paragraph 1-6.3. 1-6.4.1 Tools Required The following tools are required to install the M2488 in a...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-15 1-6.4.5 Drive with FACL Attached Figure 1-9 shows the M2488 with an attached FACL in a desktop model. Figure 1-9. M2488 with FACL in Desktop Model Use the following procedure to insert the M2488 with attached FACL in...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-19 1-6.5 Rack-Mount Installation This procedure is for mounting the M2488 tape drive, with or without a medium changer, in the rack-mount tray. The weight of the equipment may exceed 10kg, use caution whenmounting the t...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-20 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Figure 1-13. Guide Plate Installation 1-6.5.3 Screw Plate Mounting See Figure 1-14. 1-6.5.4 Attach Mounting Tray See Figure 1-14. NOTE: When the mounting hole of the rack is a screw hole, remove the positioning pins ...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-22 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6.5.5 Adjust the Brackets The length of the bracket is adjusted according to length ‘L’ between the front and rear poles of the 19-inch rack. To adjust the length of the bracket, exchange the left and right bracket...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-24 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Figure 1-17. M2488 with ACL Tray Mounting Figure 1-18. Mount FACL to Inner Cover Inner Cover Screws

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-25 Figure 1-19. FACL Face Plate Mounting tray Screws Front Panel

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-26 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6.6 Installation of the Automatic Cartridge Loader Perform the installation procedure for the ACL in the order presented in the following flowchart. The paragraph for each procedure is included in the flowchart. Eq...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-27 1-6.6.1 Prepare the M2488 Tape Drive Refer to Figure 1-20, Figure 8-6 and Figure 8-7 during performance of this procedure. STEP ACTION 1 Remove two screws from each of the foot rails on the bottom of the drive, then ...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-28 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6.6.2 Prepare the ACL Refer to Figure 1-21 during performance of this procedure. Figure 1-21. Prepare the ACL STEP ACTION 1 Remove two screws (on the bottom front corners) from the ACL top cover. 2 Push down and ho...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-29 1-6.6.3 Connect the M2488 and the ACL Refer to Figure 1-22 through Figure 1-25 during performance of this procedure. Figure 1-22. Connect the M2488 and the ACL Base STEP ACTION 1 Place the grounding plate on the fron...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-30 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Figure 1-23. Attach Operator Panel Cable to ACL Base Figure 1-24. Attach the ACL Mechanism excess cable Interface Cable

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-32 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6.7 Installation of the Flush-mount Automatic Cartridge Loader ** NOTE ** Use caution when handling the FACL. The cleaning cell protrudesfrom the rear of the FACL and could be damaged by mishandling.DO NOT use for ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-33 1-6.7.1 Prepare the M2488 Tape Drive Refer to Figure 1-26 during performance of this procedure. STEP ACTION 1 Remove the bottom, and the left and right side covers. See Figure 8-7. 2 Remove the top cover by removing ...

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 1-34 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1-6.7.2 Prepare the FACL Refer to Figure 1-27 and Figure 1-28 during performance of this procedure. Figure 1-27. Prepare the FACL STEP ACTION 1 Remove the two screws from each of the covers. 2 Pull up on the two top ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-35 Figure 1-28. FACL Rear 1-6.7.3 Connect the M2488 and the FACL Refer to Figure 1-29 and Figure 1-30 during performance of this procedure. STEP ACTION 1 Insert the grounding plate at the front of the M2488 drive as sho...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 1-37 Figure 1-31. Replace Top Covers 1-7 PREPARATION FOR USE See the User’s Guide for configuration information.

DESIGN ARCHITECTURE M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 2-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 2-3 OPERATION OF THE MAGNETIC TAPE CONTROLLER (MTC) The DTC PCA contains all of the MTC (Magnetic Tape Controller) logic in a highly integrated imple-mentation. This double-sided PCBA has extensive VLSI for reduced cost and...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DESIGN ARCHITECTURE April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 2-3 packet, to be built without requiring additional buffering. Data buffering increases overall perfor-mance by allowing data streaming since the buffer can mask or eliminate some tape repositions. The EDRC chip set consists o...

DESIGN ARCHITECTURE M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 2-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 2-3.5 Firmware The M2488 microcode is partitioned into functional modules and stored in mask ROM and flash memory. The code partitions serve to minimize communication paths within the code structure and to segregate functio...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DESIGN ARCHITECTURE April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 2-5 2-4.2 Read and Write Electronics The read circuits for the M2488 utilize fifteen analog LSI that were developed for the M2483. These components have been field proven to be a stable and low cost design. The write circuits o...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SCSI MESSAGES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 3-1 CHAPTER 3 SCSI MESSAGES 3-1 INTRODUCTION Chapters 3 through 6 are the Host Interface Specification for the M2488. This chapter describes the messages for the M2488 tape drive and the medium changers. The following information is ...

SCSI MESSAGES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 3-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 3-2.1 ABORT code 06h This message is sent from the initiator to the target to clear the present operation. If a logical unit has been identified, all pending data and status for the issuing initiator from the affected logical uni...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SCSI MESSAGES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 3-3 3-2.5 EXTENDED MESSAGE FORMAT code 01h This message is sent from either the initiator or the target as the first byte of a multiple-byte message. 3-2.5.1 Synchronous Data Transfer Request (SDTR) A SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRANSFER REQUES...

SCSI MESSAGES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 3-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 ** NOTE ** The supported SCSI transfer rates are listed in Appendix G. The originating device (the device that sends the first of the pair of SDTR messages) sets its values according to the rules above to permit it to receive dat...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SCSI MESSAGES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 3-5 (greater than zero), if the target has not received the initiator's responding SDTR message, it shall go to the BUS FREE phase without any further information transfer attempt. This indicates that a catastrophic error condition h...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SCSI MESSAGES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 3-7 If, following an initiator's responding WDTR message, the target shifts to MESSAGE IN phase and the first message in is MESSAGE REJECT, the implied agreement shall be considered to be negated and both devices shall go to eight-bi...

SCSI MESSAGES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 3-8 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 3-2.8 INITIATOR DETECTED ERROR code 05h This message is sent from an initiator to inform a target an error (e.g., parity error) has occurred that does not preclude the target from retrying the operation. Although present pointer ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SCSI MESSAGES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 3-9 When a target sends this message, it changes to MESSAGE IN phase and sends this message prior to requesting additional message bytes from the initiator. This provides an interlock so that the initiator can determine which message...

SCSI MESSAGES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 3-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 3-3 SCSI BUS STATUS A status byte, Table 3-3, is sent from the target to the initiator during the STATUS phase at the termina-tion of each command unless the command is cleared by: An ABORT message, A BUS DEVICE RESET message, A...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SCSI MESSAGES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 3-11 VATION CONFLICT status to be set. If this status is not returned, the chain of linked commands is broken; no further commands in the series are executed. 1. Intermediate/good. The Intermediate/good status is returned if the comm...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-1 CHAPTER 4 TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS 4-1 INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the commands and messages for the M2488. The following information is located in this chapter: 4-2 LOGICAL UNITS AND SCSI IDS 4-3 M2488 TAPE SCSI...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3 M2488 TAPE SCSI COMMANDS The SCSI commands used with the M2488 are described in Table 4-1. For a more detailed description of each command, refer to the paragraph listed in the PARAGRAPH column. The Command Descrip-...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-3 1Bh LOAD UNLOAD (optional) Performs either a rewind operation or a rewind and unload operation. 4-3.7 on page 4-25 1Ch RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS (optional) Requests that result data generated for a previous SEND DIAGNO...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.1 Command Description Block Format A command is executed by sending a Command Descriptor Block (CDB) to a target. See the exam-ple for a six-byte command below. The CDB may be 6, 10 or 12-bytes in length depending o...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-5 4-3.2 CHANGE DEFINITION command 40h The CHANGE DEFINITION command is used to modify the operating definition of the selected tar-get with respect to all initiators. This command is executed even if the Magnetic Tape Uni...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-6 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Definition parameter values of 00h and 03h have no effect on the target since this is the normal operating definition for this product. These values are accepted to maintain ANSI compliance. Definition parameter 40h sel...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-7 c. Changes to VPD page C1h Configuration Page take effect following a power-on reset condi-tion. 4-3.2.3 CHANGE DEFINITION CHECK CONDITION Status If a CHECK CONDITION is returned as a result of the Change Definition CDB...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 4-8. Display Data CHARACTER ASCII EBCDIC * CHARACTER ASCII EBCDIC * (space) 20h 00h - 2Dh 20h A 41h 01h / 2Fh 21h B 42h 02h S 53h 22h C 43h 03h T 54h 23h D 44h 04h U 55h 24h E 45h 05h V 56h 25h F 46h 06h W 57h 26...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-11 4-3.3.3 DISPLAY Sense Keys (11h) One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: Table 4-9. Display Mode Selection Bits (11h) QUALIFIER DESCRIPTION 000b Bytes 1 to 8 or bytes 9 to 16...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-13 4-3.4.2 Display Data (10h) The 16 bytes of DISPLAY data consists of two eight-byte messages. See Table 4-12, Table 4-13 and Table 4-8 on page 4-10. If the Parameter List Length is set to 0, no action is performed and i...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-15 4-3.5 ERASE command 19h The ERASE command causes part or all of the remaining medium to be erased beginning from the current logical position. After the receipt of a valid ERASE command, tape synchronization is perform...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-16 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 A Long bit set to zero causes a 7.8 +/- 0.4 mm of the medium to be recorded with an erase tone (special pattern along with a 2-mm IBG). This is known as the Erase Gap based on the Gap Size field in the Device Configura...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-17 7h DATA PROTECT Attempted write-type operation to write-protected tape cartridge. Bh ABORTED COMMAND The ERASE command was aborted. SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-18 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.6 INQUIRY command 12h The INQUIRY command provides a means for an initiator to request information regarding parame-ters of the target and any attached peripheral devices. 4-3.6.1 INQUIRY CDB Description The INQUIR...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-19 4-3.6.2 INQUIRY CHECK CONDITION Status If an INQUIRY command is received from an initiator with a pending unit attention condition (i.e., before the target reports CHECK CONDITION status), the target performs the INQUI...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-21 Table 4-19. INQUIRY Data Format Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 0-4 & 5-7 The Peripheral Device Type and Peripheral Qualifier fields identify the physical device currently connected to the logical un...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-24 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.6.4 INQUIRY Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: Table 4-23. Default Vendor and Product Identification Fields LUN VENDOR ID CONTROLLER PRODUCT ID LUN PRODUC...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-25 4-3.7 LOAD UNLOAD command 1Bh The LOAD UNLOAD command performs either a rewind operation or a rewind and unload opera-tion. Prior to performing either of these operations, any buffered write data and buffered filemarks...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-26 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Medium Changer: If a Medium Changer is attached then an automatic load of the next tape cartridge may occur fol-lowing the Tape Unit unload operation (Load bit = 0). The decision to perform this automatic load is based...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-27 4-3.7.3 LOAD UNLOAD Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing buffered data be...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-28 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.8 LOCATE command 2Bh The LOCATE command causes the tape unit to position to a specific logical location. The Block address field specifies the target location; the logical unit positions in front of the block assoc...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-30 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 If the Format code field is set to 11b then the LOCATE command is rejected. The Format code field is not checked against the actual format of the tape. This field is ignored except when it con-tains the reserved value ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-31 4-3.8.2 LOCATE CHECK CONDITION Status If CHECK CONDITION status is reported for a LOCATE command with the Immediate bit set to 1, then the locate operation is not performed. 4-3.8.3 LOCATE Sense Keys One of the followi...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-32 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.9 LOG SELECT command 4Ch The LOG SELECT command provides a means for the initiator to manage statistical information maintained by the target about itself and attached logical units. It is a complementary command t...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-33 4-3.10 LOG SENSE command 4Dh The LOG SENSE Command provides a means for the initiator to retrieve statistical information maintained by the target about itself and attached logical units. It is a complementary command ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-34 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Any other value in the Page Code field will result in CHECK CONDITION status with a sense key of ILLEGAL REQUEST. A value in the PPC field of other than 0b will be rejected with a CHECK CONDITION status with a sense ke...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-35 In addition to the ANSI defined conditions for clearing of log data, log data will be cleared by the following: 1. A LOG SENSE command (clears counters only for the page requested). The specified page is returned to it...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-36 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 If the initiator sends a parameter length value that results in the truncation of the parameter value, the target shall terminate the command with CHECK CONDITION status. The sense key is set to ILLEGAL REQUEST with th...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-37 4-3.10.3.1 Log Sense Pages Table 4-35. Log Sense Page 00h, Supported Log Pages (default) BITS DEFAULT VALUE BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 Reserved Page Code 00h 1 Reserved 00h 2-3 Page Length 0005h 4 Page supported 00h 5 Pag...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-44 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 52- 53 MSB Parameter Code 0100h LSB 54 DU DS=1 TSD=1 ETC=0 TMC=0 Reserved LP= 0 E0h or 60h 55 Parameter Length 08h 56 Cln Req * Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved 00h 57- 63 MSB Reserved 00h...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-48 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.10.4 LOG SENSE Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing buffered data to ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-49 4-3.11 LOOP WRITE TO READ command C1h The LOOP WRITE TO READ (LWR) command transfers one block of data from the initiator and performs an internal LWR operation. This command is used to check the controller’s data and ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-50 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Data is transferred in the mode selected by the MODE SELECT command. 4-3.11.2 LOOP WRITE TO READ CHECK CONDITION Status This control unit implements both fixed-block and variable-block modes. If the Fixed bit is one an...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-51 4-3.12 MODE SELECT command 15h The MODE SELECT command provides a means for the initiator to specify medium, logical unit, and peripheral device parameters to the target by sending data relevant to such parameters in a...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-52 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 same as the current parameters will not result in any change or the reporting of a Unit Attention to other initiators. In any case, a Unit Attention condition due to mode parameters being changed will not be generated ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-53 Block Descriptor: A Block Descriptor Length of 0 indicates no block descriptors are included in the parameter list. This condition is not considered an error. The block descriptor length does not include the length of ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-54 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Page Descriptor: If the initiator sends page fields with values that are not supported by the target or are not Change-able, the target returns a CHECK CONDITION status with the sense key field set to ILLEGAL REQUEST i...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-55 4-3.12.3 MODE SELECT Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing buffered data b...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-56 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.13 MODE SENSE command 1Ah The MODE SENSE command provides a means for a target to report its medium, logical unit, or peripheral device parameters to the initiator by sending the parameters during the data phase of...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-57 The Page Code allows the initiator to select any one specific page or all of the pages supported by a target. Pages are used to set and return device parameters. If the initiator uses a page code value not implemented ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-58 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 4-54. MODE SENSE Data Header Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 0-7 The MODE SENSE data length specifies the length in bytes, after the data length field, that are available to be transferred during t...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-59 Block Descriptor: The block descriptor specifies the medium characteristics for all of a logical unit. The block descriptor contains a density code of 00h or 09h (default), a number of blocks, and a block length. Page ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-60 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.13.3 Mode Settings When the product is manufactured, the saved mode settings are initialized to the default mode set-tings; the saved mode settings will then change after each successful MODE SELECT with the SP bit...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-62 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.13.5 MODE SENSE Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing buffered data, b...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-63 4-3.14 READ command 08h The READ command transfers one or more blocks to the initiator beginning with the next block on the logical unit. Upon termination of the READ command, the logical position is located after the ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-64 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.14.2 READ CHECK CONDITION Status The following table describes how a CHECK CONDITION occurs. FIXED BIT SILI BIT BLOCK MODE * DESCRIPTION 1 1 Causes CHECK CONDITION status with the sense key being ILLEGAL REQUEST. 0...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-65 * Both fixed block and variable block modes are implemented by this tape controller. Reference the Read Block Limits and Mode Select (mode parameters block descriptor) commands for more information about fixed and vari...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-66 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.14.3 READ Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 0h NO SENSE 1. SILI and Fixed bits are both zero and the actual block length ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-67 Bh ABORTED COMMAND READ command was aborted. Dh VOLUME OVERFLOW Write of buffered data prior to the read operation failed because physical End-of-Tape has been reached. SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-68 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.15 READ BLOCK LIMITS command 05h The READ BLOCK LIMITS command requests the target’s block length limits for the logical unit. The READ BLOCK LIMITS data, shown in Table 4-62, is sent during the DATA IN phase of th...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-69 If a DMA transfer (READ, WRITE, READ BUFFER, WRITE BUFFER, OR LOOP WRITE TO READ) is requested by the host with a transfer length of zero bytes, this is not considered an error. The command is processed with no data tr...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-70 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.16 READ BUFFER command 3Ch The READ BUFFER command is used in conjunction with the WRITE BUFFER command as a diagnostic function for testing target memory and the SCSI bus integrity. Other than synchronizing any bu...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-71 Table 4-64. READ BUFFER Command Mode Vendor Unique Mode (001b) and Data Mode (010b): In these modes, the DATA IN phase contains buffer data. The Buffer ID field identifies the spe-cific buffer within the target. The su...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-72 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Descriptor Mode (011b): In this mode, a maximum of four bytes of READ BUFFER descriptor information are returned. The descriptor information for the LUN receiving the command is returned. If there is no buffer associat...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-73 ** NOTE ** 1. A buffer may be altered between the WRITE BUFFER and READBUFFER commands by execution of commands from another initiatoror background diagnostics. Buffer testing applications may avoidbuffer usage conflic...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-74 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.16.2 READ BUFFER Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR 1. Recovery was performed when synchronizing buffer...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-75 4-3.17 READ POSITION command 34h The READ POSITION command causes 20 bytes to be sent from the target to the initiator. The 20 bytes are a report of the position of the tape unit and information about blocks stored in ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-76 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.17.2 READ POSITION Return Data The READ POSITION Return Data is shown below and described in Table 4-71. BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 BOP EOP Reserved BPU Reserved 1 Partition number 2 Reserved 3 Reserved 4 MSB Fir...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-77 a. If the tape is positioned at Physical End of Tape then the BOP bit reported will necessarily be zero because no more blocks can be read or written; so if the BOP bit is sampled following a successful ERASE with the ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-78 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.17.3 Description of Block ID Format a. A 36 track tape consists of two interleaved groups of 18 tracks; each group is called a wrap. The first wrap is written first and runs from Physical BOT towards Physical EOT. ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-79 4-3.17.4 READ POSITION Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 5h ILLEGAL REQUEST 1. Reserved bit was found set in the CDB of the R...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-80 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.18 READ REVERSE command 0Fh The READ REVERSE command requests that the tape unit transfer blocks of data to the initiator. Any buffered write data or filemarks are written before this operation is executed. This co...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-81 4-3.18.2 READ REVERSE CHECK CONDITION Status If the fixed bit is one, then the Mode Parameter Block Descriptor Block Length must be non-zero. Otherwise CHECK CONDITION status is reported with the sense key as ILLEGAL R...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-82 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.18.3 READ REVERSE Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 0h NO SENSE 1. Filemark encountered.2. BOT encountered. 1h RECOVERED ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-83 4-3.19 RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS command 1Ch The RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS command requests that result data, generated for a previ-ous SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, be sent to the initiator. ** NOTE ** The results of the...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-84 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 4-76. RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC Parameter List Length Field PAGE CODE ROUTINE PARAMETER LIST LENGTH N/A SelfTest N/A 00h - 6 80h 01h 20 80h 50h 20 80h 51h 20 80h 52h 20 80h 53h 20 80h 54h 20 80h 57h 20 80h C0h 20 80h C2...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-85 4-3.19.2 Diagnostic Page Codes (PF=1 in SEND DIAGNOSTIC command CDB) If the Page Format (PF) bit was set to 1 in a previous SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, the RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS command will return diagnostic result ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-86 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Description of the Page Code 80h Table 4-80. Page 80h - Online Diagnostic Test Page BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 Page Code (80h) 1 Reserved 2-3 Page Length (0010h) 4 Routine in error (Routine number) 5 Execute Count (P...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-87 4-3.19.3 Diagnostic Parameter List (PF=0 in SEND DIAGNOSTIC command CDB) If the Page Format (PF) bit was cleared to 0 in a previous SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, the RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS command will return diagnostic...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-88 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.19.5 RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-89 4-3.20 RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS (FACTORY MODE) command 1Ch The RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS (FACTORY MODE) command requests that result data, generated for a previous SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, be sent to the initiator. ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-93 Description of the Page Code 81h Table 4-90. Page 80h Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 4 0-7 The Routine in Error field contains the Routine ID of the failing routine. If this field contains 00h, no errors ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-94 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Description of the Page Code 90-9Fh Table 4-92. Page 81h Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 4 0-7 The Routine in Error field contains the Routine ID of the failing routine. If this field contains 00h, no erro...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-95 Description of fields in Page Codes 90-9Fh 16-17 MTU DIAG result data 6 18-19 MTU DIAG result data 7 20-21 MTU DIAG result data 8 22-23 MTU DIAG result data 9 24-25 MTU DIAG result data 10 26-27 MTU DIAG result data 11...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-96 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.20.3 Diagnostic Parameter List (PF=0 in SEND DIAGNOSTIC command CDB) If the Page Format (PF) bit was cleared to 0 in a previous SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, the RECEIVE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS (FACTORY MODE) command will re...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-98 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.21 RECOVER BUFFERED DATA command 14h RECOVER BUFFERED DATA requests that the tape unit transfer one or more blocks of data from the tape unit’s buffer to the initiator. The command is used to retrieve data containe...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-99 4-3.21.2 RECOVER BUFFERED DATA Operation Unlike the READ command, one can control the order that blocks are transferred for the RECOVER BUFFERED DATA command. The Recover Buffer Order (RBO) bit of the Mode Parameter De...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-100 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.21.4 RECOVER BUFFERED DATA Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 0h NO SENSE 1. SILI and Fixed bits are both zero and the ac...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-101 4-3.22 RELEASE UNIT command 17h The RESERVE UNIT and RELEASE UNIT commands serve to resolve contention in multiple-initi-ator systems. The RELEASE UNIT command is used to release previously reserved logical units for ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-102 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.22.2 RELEASE UNIT Operation If a valid reservation exists for the Initiator-Target-LUN combination, the target releases the reser-vation and returns GOOD status. A reservation may only be released by the initiator...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-103 4-3.23 REQUEST SENSE command 03h The REQUEST SENSE command requests that the target transfer sense data to the initiator. The con-troller is capable of supplying 44 bytes (2Ch bytes) of sense. Refer to section 8-3 on ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-104 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Example: a. The target receives a nonzero reserved bit in the command descriptor block. b. An unrecovered parity error occurs on the DATA BUS. c. A target malfunction prevents return of the sense data. If any nonfatal...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-105 4-3.24 Report Density Support command 44h The REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT command provides a means for the initiator to retrieve informa-tion maintained by the target about the supported densities for the MTU logical unit....

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-106 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.24.2 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Data The REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT data contains a four-byte header, followed by one or two DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks. The DENSITY SUPPORT data blocks are in numerical ascending order of...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-107 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Header: The REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT data length indicates the number of bytes in the following data that is available to transfer. This data length does not include itself. Table 4-101. REPORT DE...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-109 Table 4-104. REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Data Block Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 0-7 The Primary Density Code contains the value returned by a MODE SENSE command for the density described in the remainder...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-111 4-3.24.3 REPORT DENSITY SUPPORT Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 2h NOT READY 1. The Media bit is one and the logical unit ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-112 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.25 RESERVE UNIT command 16h The RESERVE UNIT and RELEASE UNIT commands serve to resolve contention in multiple-initi-ator systems. The RESERVE UNIT command reserves the specified logical unit for the exclusive use...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-113 4-3.25.2 RESERVE UNIT Operation This command will always cause a synchronization unless: The device is operating in Buffered Mode 1, wherein different initiators may have data in the buffer at the same time, or A thir...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-114 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Superseding reservations. An initiator that currently has a logical unit reserved may modify the current reservation by issuing another RESERVE UNIT command to the same logical unit. The superseding reservation releas...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-115 4-3.26 REWIND command 01h The REWIND command causes the logical unit to position to the beginning of tape. Any buffered write data and filemarks are written to the tape before the positioning is performed. A single RE...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-116 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.26.3 REWIND Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR 1. Recovery was performed when writing buffered data be...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-117 4-3.27 SEND DIAGNOSTIC command 1Dh The SEND DIAGNOSTIC command requests the target to perform diagnostic tests on itself, or on the attached peripheral devices. After the receipt of a valid SEND DIAGNOSTIC command, th...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-118 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 1 4 1 0 A page format (PF) bit of one indicates the SEND DIAGNOSTIC parameters defined by ANSI standard X3.131-1994 are used. The PF bit specifies the parameter list consists of zero or more diagnostic pages and that ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-119 NOTE: An “X” denotes “don’t care”. 4-3.27.2 SEND DIAGNOSTIC CHECK CONDITION Status All reserved bits must be set to zero. If these bits are set to one, the command is terminated with CHECK CONDITION status and the sen...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-123 4-3.27.5 SEND DIAGNOSTIC Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed when writing buffered d...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-124 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.28 SEND DIAGNOSTIC (FACTORY MODE) command 1Dh The SEND DIAGNOSTIC (FACTORY MODE) command requests the target to perform diagnostic tests on itself, or on the attached peripheral devices. After the receipt of a val...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-126 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 NOTE: An “X” denotes “don’t care”. 4-3.28.2 SEND DIAGNOSTIC (FACTORY MODE) CHECK CONDITION Status All reserved bits must be set to zero. If these bits are set to one, the command is terminated with CHECK CONDITION sta...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-127 SEND DIAGNOSTIC command with CHECK CONDITION status, the sense key is set to ILLE-GAL REQUEST and additional sense key is set to INVALID FIELD IN PARAMETER LIST. For all pages, the Page Length bytes must be set as ind...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-128 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Description of Page Code 80h This page allows user selection of Online Diagnostic Routines and control over the number of times each routine is to be executed. Selection of a diagnostic routine is accomplished by assi...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-129 Description of Page Code 81h This page allows user selection of Manufacturing Online Diagnostic Routines and control over the number of times each routine is to be executed. Description of fields in Page Code 81h Tabl...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-131 Description of Page Codes 90-9Fh This page allows user selection of MTU Online Diagnostic Routines and control over the number of times each routine is to be executed. Description of fields in Page Codes 90-9Fh Table ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-135 4-3.29 SPACE command 11h The Space command changes the logical unit position relative to the current position. The Code and Count fields determine how this relative positioning is to be performed. Before the position ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-136 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.29.2 SPACE CHECK CONDITION Status If the Valid bit is set to 1 for Sense data for a CHECK CONDITION for a SPACE command, then the Information field in the Sense data contains a count of the remainder of blocks or ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-137 4-3.29.3 SPACE Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 0h NO SENSE 1. A filemark was encountered while spacing over blocks.2. Begi...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-138 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.30 TEST UNIT READY command 00h The TEST UNIT READY command provides a means to check if the logical unit is ready. This is not a request for a self-test. If the logical unit would accept an appropriate medium-acce...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-139 4-3.30.3 TEST UNIT READY Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 1h RECOVERED ERROR Recovery was performed while writing buffered ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-140 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.31 WRITE command 0Ah The WRITE command transfers one or more blocks from the initiator to the current position on the logical unit. 4-3.31.1 WRITE CDB Description WRITE is a six-byte command. The bytes are as show...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-141 a CHECK CONDITION and a sense key of Illegal Request. If the Fixed bit is zero, the WRITE command operates in variable block mode regardless of the current mode set by MODE SELECT. If the Fixed bit is set to zero, a s...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-142 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 It is possible for the value in the information bytes of the sense data generated when a CHECK CONDITION is returned for a WRITE command to exceed the transfer length specified in the CDB of the WRITE command. Early W...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-143 4-3.31.3 WRITE Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 0h NO SENSE Tape is positioned between the Early-Warning position and End-o...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-144 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.32 WRITE BUFFER command 3Bh The WRITE BUFFER command is used in conjunction with the READ BUFFER command as a diagnostic function for testing target memory and the SCSI bus integrity. Additional modes are sup-port...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-145 Vendor Unique Mode (001b) and Write Data Mode (010b) Description. In these modes, the DATA OUT phase contains buffer data. The Buffer ID field identifies a specific buffer within the target. The supported buffer IDs f...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-146 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 NOTES: 1. The read/write data buffer and NVRAM are wrap-around buffers. Therefore, the entire capacity specified by the Read Buffer Descriptor is available, regardless of the offset specified. 2. Prior to allowing WRI...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-148 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 NOTES: 1. Since an automatic reset is performed upon completing the Write Buffer command in Down- load Microcode With Offsets mode, the MICROCODE HAS BEEN CHANGED unit attention condition is replaced with the POWER ON...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-149 tor, CHECK CONDITION status is returned with a sense key set to ILLEGAL REQUEST with an additional sense code of INVALID FIELD IN CDB. If the requested buffer offset exceeds the buffer capacity, the target returns CHE...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-150 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.33 WRITE FILEMARKS command 10h The WRITE FILEMARKS command requests the write of zero or more filemarks to tape. The filemarks will be written at the current logical position on tape. The Filemark count field indi...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-151 4-3.33.2 WRITE FILEMARKS CHECK CONDITION Status If the Valid bit is set to 1 of Sense data for a CHECK CONDITION presented for a WRITE FILEMARKS command then the Information field in the Sense data is set as follows: ...

TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 4-152 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 4-3.33.3 WRITE FILEMARKS Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 0h NO SENSE Tape is positioned between the Early-Warning position...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT SCSI COMMANDS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 4-153 4-4 COMMAND DISCONNECTION After receiving any command, the controller disconnects if disconnection is not inhibited by the IDEN-TIFY message and the controller requires device activity to complete the request. The con...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-1 CHAPTER 5 TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS 5-1 INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the parameters for the M2488. The following information is located in this chap-ter: 5-2 ADDITIONAL COMMAND INFORMATION ON MTU MODE SELECT AND MODE SEN...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 5-2.2 Vendor Unique Parameter Table 5-2. Page 00 - Vendor Unique Parameter BITS MODE SENSE DEFAULT VALUES BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 PS * Reserved Page Code 80h 1 Additional Page Length 0Eh 2 Reserved WRTY Reserved PAEB Reser...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-3 3 2 1 0 When the FRU bit is set to one, the Diagnostic Error codes listed in Appendix F are dis-played on the op panel display.When the FRU bit is set to zero, the Diagnostic Error codes are not displayed on the op panel d...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 5-2.3 Error Recovery and Reporting Parameters The Page 01 Error Recovery and Reporting Parameters CDB is illustrated in Table 5-4 and described in Table 5-5. The parameters on this page specify the error recovery and repor...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-6 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 5-6 summarizes the valid modes of operation for the bits in byte 2 as described previously. Table 5-6. Valid Combinations of Error Recovery Parameters EER PER DTE DCR DESCRIPTION 1 0 0 0 Correction, then retries are ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-7 5-2.4 Disconnect/Reconnect Control Parameters These parameters provide the initiator with the means to tune the SCSI bus. Table 5-7. Page 02 - Disconnect/Reconnect Parameters BITS MODE SENSE DEFAULT VALUES BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 ...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-8 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 If the DTDC field is non-zero and the Maximum Burst Size is non-zero, the target shall return CHECK CONDITION status. The sense key will be set to ILLEGAL REQUEST and the additional sense code set to ILLEGAL FIELD IN PARAM...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-9 5-2.5 Common Device-Type Control Parameters ** NOTE ** The only field that may be modified in this page is the RLEC bit. On aMODE SELECT command, all other fields must be zero. On a MODESENSE command, only the RLEC field i...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-11 5-2.6 Device Configuration Parameters ** NOTE ** The only fields that may be modified in this page are Read BufferEmpty Ratio, the SOCF field, Read Buffer Empty Ratio, the RBO bitand the Select Data Compression Algorithm ...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-14 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 5-2.7 Density Code 28h Until now, when sending Mode Parameters with a Mode Select command, the initiator could only set 00h, 09h or 7Fh in the Density Code field in the Block Descriptor (byte 00h). The Mode Parameter data...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-15 5-2.7.1 M2488 Operation When Density Code 28h Is Not Configured In its default mode, the M2488 does not use Density Code 28h. The Mode Select command will accept the following settings in the Density Code field (Mode Para...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-16 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 * An Unload is considered to be a ready-to-not-ready transition which can result from the Unload command, the Move Medium command, or by pressing Reset on the op-panel. After a Power Up sequence, when the unit is in the R...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-17 5-3 MTU INQUIRY/CHANGE DEFINITION VITAL PRODUCT DATA PAGES This section describes the VPD (Vital Product Data) pages and parameters used by the MTU Inquiry and Change Definition commands. The MTU VPD parameters include in...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-18 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 ** NOTE ** All Inquiry ASCII data generated in fields representing numerical val-ues (e.g. power-on time, cleaning count, etc.) is the ASCII equivalentto the hexadecimal numerical value. Table 5-19. VPD Page Format Field ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-19 5-3.2 Supported VPD Pages - Page 00h VPD page 00h returns a list of the vital product data pages supported by this target. The format for VPD Page 00h is: The Supported Page List contains a list of all implemented vital p...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-20 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 The product serial number field contains 16 bytes of ASCII data that is vendor-specific. The product serial number is stored in NVRAM and is maintained across power cycles and resets. If the product serial number is not a...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-21 5-3.5 ASCII Implemented Operating Definition Page - Page 82h VPD page 82h returns the target’s implemented operating definitions in ASCII format. The format for VPD page 82h is: Reference the Change Definition SCSI comman...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-22 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 5-3.6 Unit Usage Page - Page C0h VPD page C0h returns usage parameters. The format for VPD page C0h is: The following fields defined for this page are stored in NVRAM and are maintained across power cycles and resets. If ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 5-23 5-3.7 Configuration Page - Page C1h VPD page C1h returns configuration information. For a description of each of the configuration fields in this VPD page, refer to the M2488 User’s Guide, CHAPTER 4. The format for VPD pa...

TAPE UNIT PARAMETERS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 5-24 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 5-3.8 Product Identification Page - Page C2h VPD page C2h contains product identification information. The format for VPD page C2h is: The following fields defined for this page are stored in NVRAM and are maintained acro...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-1 CHAPTER 6 MEDIA CHANGER SCSI COMMANDS 6-1 INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the medium changer commands for the M2488. The following information is located in this chapter: 6-2 MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS 6-3 ADDITIONAL COM...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.1 EXCHANGE MEDIUM MC command A6h The EXCHANGE MEDIUM medium-changer command provides a means to exchange the medium in the source element, with the medium located at a destination element. The medium in the source el...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-3 EXCHANGE MEDIUM commands when the source element type is the same as second destina-tion element type. Send a READ ELEMENT STATUS command before sending an EXCHANGE MEDIUM com-mand to determine if an exchange is possible...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.1.3 EXCHANGE MEDIUM Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 2h NOT READY Logical Unit is not ready (magazine not set or if set, t...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-6 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.2 MODE SELECT MC command 15h The MODE SELECT medium-changer command provides a means for the initiator to specify medium changer device parameters to the target by sending data relevant to such parameters in a data p...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-8 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.2.2 MODE SELECT CHECK CONDITION Status For the following conditions, a MODE SELECT command will fail with a CHECK CONDITION status with the sense key set to ILLEGAL REQUEST, and the additional sense code set to INVAL...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-9 MODE SELECT Parameter Header The four bytes of the Mode Parameter Header are shown in Table 6-6. The block descriptor is not supported for the Medium Changer so its length must be specified as 00h. Page Descriptors Follo...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 For more information on the Medium Changer Mode Parameters see section 6-3 on page 6-32. 6-2.2.4 MODE SELECT MC Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CO...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-11 6-2.3 MODE SENSE MC command 1Ah The MODE SENSE medium-changer command provides a means for a target to report its medium changer device parameters to the initiator. The MODE SENSE command is a complementary com-mand to ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-13 6-2.3.2 MODE SENSE Data The MODE SENSE data contains a four-byte header, followed by zero or more variable length pages. Page Descriptor The page formats are defined as shown in Table 6-13 and described in Table 6-4. Ta...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-14 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 If a MODE SELECT command with SP=1 has never been successfully performed on the target, then following a power on, SCSI bus reset, BUS DEVICE RESET message, the controller reports its default mode setting whenever curre...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-16 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.4 MOVE MEDIUM MC command A5h The MOVE MEDIUM medium-changer command requests that the target move a unit of media from a source element to a destination element. 6-2.4.1 MOVE MEDIUM CDB Description MOVE MEDIUM is a ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-17 The xCL supports Storage element to Storage element moves only when no cartridges are loaded in the drive. Send a READ ELEMENT STATUS command before sending a MOVE MEDIUM command to determine if a move operation is poss...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-18 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.4.3 MOVE MEDIUM Sense Keys One of the following sense keys may be returned if a CHECK CONDITION was indicated: SENSE KEY CONDITION DESCRIPTION 2h NOT READY Logical Unit is not ready (magazine not set or if set, then...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-19 6-2.5 READ ELEMENT STATUS MC command B8h The READ ELEMENT STATUS medium changer command requests that the target report status information for the medium-changer elements. Status for the elements is returned in blocks o...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-20 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 Table 6-17. READ ELEMENT STATUS Field Description BYTE BIT VALU E DESCRIPTION 0 0-7 B8h Operation code. 1 0-3 The Element type code field specifies an element type; element descriptors are only returned for those elemen...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-21 6-2.5.2 READ ELEMENT STATUS Data The data transferred for the READ ELEMENT STATUS command is structured. The data starts with an Element status data header. This is followed by one or more Element status pages. Each Ele...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-22 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.5.2.1 Element Status Data The Element status data header is an 8 byte block; a diagram of this block is shown in Table 6-21 and described in Table 6-22. None of the fields in the Element status data header are adjus...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-23 6-2.5.2.2 Element Status Page Each Element status page contains one 8 byte header followed by one or more Element descrip-tors. A diagram of the Element Status Page header is shown in Table 6-23 and described in Table 6...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-24 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.5.2.3 Element Descriptors See Table 6-25 through Table 6-31 for descriptions of the Element Descriptors. Table 6-25. Medium Transport Element Descriptor (Type Code = 1h) BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0- 1 MSB Element A...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-25 Table 6-27. Storage Element Descriptor (Type Code=2h) BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 MSB Element Address 1 LSB 2 Reserved Access Exception Reserved Full 3 Reserved 4 Additional Sense Code 5 Additional Sense Code Qualifier...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-26 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 Table 6-29. Import Export Element Descriptor (Type Code=3h) BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0- 1 MSB Element Address LSB 2 Reserved Import Enable = 1 Export Enable=1 Access Exception ImpExp Full 3 Reserved 4 Additional Sense...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-28 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 Table 6-32. Data Transfer Element Descriptor Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 0-1 The Element address field indicates the address of the element for which status is being reported in the descriptor. 2 0 1 0 ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-29 6-2.5.3 Source and Destination Elements Table 6-33 shows when an element is allowed to be source or destination for a MOVE MEDIUM or EXCHANGE MEDIUM command based upon the element’s Full and Access status bits. 6-2.5.4 ...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-30 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-2.6 TEST UNIT READY MC command 00h The TEST UNIT READY command provides a means to check if the logical unit is ready. This is not a request for a self-test. If the logical unit would accept an appropriate medium-acce...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-32 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-3 ADDITIONAL COMMAND INFORMATION ON MEDIUM CHANGER MODE SELECT AND MODE SENSE COMMANDS Table 6-35 lists the page codes supported by the Medium Changer MODE SELECT and MODE SENSE commands. ** NOTE ** The current value ...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-34 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 The following MODE CODES are specified: When the Inhibit Magazine Eject code is set, the Medium Changer does NOT eject the Magazine upon either the receipt of a MOVE MEDIUM command that specifies move Import/Export Elem...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-35 ** NOTE ** The Cartridge Map may be returned as zeros if the Medium Changeris NOT READY. 6-3.2 Page Code 1Dh, Element Address Assignments Table 6-41. Cartridge Map BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 4 P31 P30 P29 P28 P27 P26 P2...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-36 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 ** NOTE ** All fields in this page are reported as NOT changeable. The defaultvalues are the same as the current values shown above anddescribed below. Table 6-43. ACL Page Code 1Dh, Element Address Assignments Field De...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-37 ** NOTE ** All fields in this page are reported as NOT changeable. The defaultvalues are the same as the current values shown above anddescribed below. 6-3.3 Page Code 1Eh, Transport Geometry Parameters ** NOTE ** All f...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-38 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-3.4 Page Code 1Fh, Device Capabilities ** NOTE ** All fields are reported as NOT changeable. The default values areshown in the table. Reserved fields always have a default value ofzero. For more information about how...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-41 6-4 MC (MEDIUM CHANGER) INQUIRY/CHANGE DEFINITION VITAL PRODUCT DATA PAGES This section describes the VPD (Vital Product Data) pages and parameters used by the MC Inquiry and Change Definition commands. The MC VPD param...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-42 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-4.2 Supported VPD Pages - Page 00h VPD page 00h returns a list of the vital product data pages supported by this target. The format for VPD Page 00h is: Table 6-52. VPD Page Format Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DES...

MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 6-44 CG00000-011503 REV. A March 1997 6-4.3 Implemented Operating Definition Page 81h VPD page 81h returns the list of implemented operating definitions for the target. The format for VPD page 81h is: The current operating definition field indicates the pre...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MEDIA CHANGER COMMANDS March 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 6-45 6-4.4 ASCII Implemented Operating Definition Page 82h VPD page 82h returns the target’s implemented operating definitions in ASCII format. The format for VPD page 82h is: The ASCII operating definition description lengt...

6-4.5 Product Identification Page C2h VPD page C2h contains product identification information. The format for VPD page C2h is: The following fields defined for this page are stored in NVRAM and are maintained across power cycles and resets. These fields correspond to bytes 8 through 31 in the MC no...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE PROCESSING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 7-1 CHAPTER 7 TAPE PROCESSING 7-1 INTRODUCTION The following information is located in this chapter: 7-2 CHANGING MODE PARAMETERS 7-3 PERMANENT ERROR HANDLING 7-2 CHANGING MODE PARAMETERS 7-2.1 Initiator Setup To ensure that the MO...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE TAPE PROCESSING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 7-3 7-3 PERMANENT ERROR HANDLING Basic operating procedures, such as rewind and unload, are described in Chapter 5 of the User’s Guide. 7-3.1 PERMANENT WRITE ERROR If a permanent write error occurs, the most common error recovery m...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 When an Ozone message is observed, the check code and text message should be recorded as well as the current operating conditions and all data forwarded to Product Support for problem resolution. If possible a Read Bu...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-3 8-2.4.2 Maintenance Terminal Error Code Display The Maintenance Terminal computer display shows error messages as follows: RUNNING TESTS: (RETURN to abort)TEST LIST OPTIONS: display status, display errors, stop on err...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-3 SENSE DATA The sense bytes, contained in the controller, indicate error, status, and statistical information about the controller or the drive. Error information is set in the sense bytes when the CHECK CONDITION ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-5 Table 8-2. Error Code 70 Sense Format Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 7 1 When the valid bit is a one, sense bytes 3 to 6 indicate the difference between the number of bytes, blocks, or filemarks reques...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-7 Table 8-4. Error Code 71 Sense Format Field Description BYTE BIT VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 7 1 When the valid bit is a one, sense bytes 3 to 6 indicate the difference between the number of bytes, blocks, or filemarks reques...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-9 8-3.2 Sense Information Bytes 20-43 Refer to the correct sense information format in the following paragraphs. 8-3.2.1 Format 0 Sense Information Description for SIC All bytes are 00h. 8-3.2.2 Format 01h Sense Informa...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 8-8. Additional Format Error Information Type BYTE # RD/RB ON DATA BLOCK RD SDDP ERROR WR SDDP ERROR WRONG RSVP MESSAGE RD/RB ON MARK SERVO ERROR BID MISCO MPARE SEARCH MISSED 29 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 30 RDCr...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-11 8-3.2.3 Description of Format 01h Sense Information for Drive Table 8-9. Format 01h Sense Information, Drive BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 20 Drive ERPA Code 21 MC error MTU error 1 Reserved 22 00h 23 Error Code 24-27 0...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-13 8-3.2.4 Format 2 and 3 Sense Information, Hardware Registers Format 2 and 3 provides a listing of controller hardware registers. Bytes 22 and 23 of Format 2 and Format 3 sense data, however, provide fault symptom cod...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-14 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 8-13. Format 03h Sense Information, EDRC Hardware Registers BITS BYTES 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 20 SDDP_HI.rev 21 00h 22-23 Fault Symptom Code 24-27 SDDP_HI.hdxc 28-31 SDDP_HI.hdxs 32 SDDP_HI.ph00 33 SDDP_HI.ph01 34 SDD...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-15 8-3.2.5 Format 4 Sense Information for Diagnostic Errors The Format 4 Sense Information for SCSI SEND DIAGNOSTIC command with SELFTEST bit set is shown in Table 8-14 and described in Table 8-15. Table 8-14. Format 04...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-16 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-4 DIAGNOSTICS The M2488 tape drive supports three operational modes for diagnostics. The first mode is the Go/No-Go diagnostics that are invoked automatically each time power is applied to the tape drive. The secon...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-17 Table 8-16. Operator Panel Top Level Menus - Diagnostics Mode * OFFLINE DIAGMODE SETTING LOADCODE INQUIRY MODE PGS FACTORY Selection and execution of off-line diag-nostics Access and configure user settable options C...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-18 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Navigation keys:To navigate through the options, settings, and to make changes from the Operator Panel:Press START to move forward through the options or settings. It will also increment the settings numbers.Press SH...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-19 8-4.3.1 Off-Line Diagnostic Menu on the Operator Panel Table 8-17. Operator Panel Off-Line Diagnostics COMMAND SELECTION OR RESPONSE DESCRIPTION *RunRun MTCRun MTURun ACL R:###### This command begins execution of all...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-21 RS-232 User Interface Commands Upon entering the Off-Line diagnostic mode, the command prompt OFF-LINE DIAGNOSTIC COMMAND: will appear. At the command prompt, the following commands are available. a) Conventions used...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-22 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 ListList [n] [e]List [Regis-try] [r] [t] List current tests in test list or list test registry. Entering “List” will display all of the tests in the current test list. Entering “List Registry” will display the regis-...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-23 Figure 8-1. Help Information Display Off-Line diagnostic command: help- Diagnostic Help: Overview ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMMANDS: Add r t [l] ----------------> Add to te...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-24 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-4.4 Types of Diagnostic Procedures The Diagnostic Microcode architecture is a list based architecture. Therefore, the basic sequence of operations for any diagnostic procedure is as follows: 1. Create or modify a t...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-26 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 b. Page Code 80h Tests Table 8-20. Page Code 80h Test Description TEST ONLINE ROUTINE DESCRIPTION OPERATOR INTERVENTION Self Test 01h The same tests as described in Table 8-19. The self test is also SCSI Routine 01h....

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-27 8-4.5 Diagnostic Test Registry Refer to Appendix F, Table F-2 for a list of all of the diagnostic tests in the Diagnostic Test Registry for the Tasked Go/No-Go mode, the OnLine mode, and the Off-Line mode. 8-4.6 Diag...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-28 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-5 FACTORY SETTINGS The factory menu is used to set options during manufacturing and can be used to view M2488 informa-tion such as serial number, tape motion time, and power-on time. This menu is also used to enabl...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-29 Table 8-23 describes the factory menu options and settings. Navigation keys:To navigate through the options, settings, and to make changes from the Operator Panel:Press START to move forward through the options or se...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-30 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-6 ERROR RECOVERY PROCEDURES The IDENTIFY message is used by the initiator or target to establish the physical path between the ini-tiator and target for a specific logical unit. Bit 6 of the IDENTIFY message is def...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-32 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Figure 8-2. EDRC Retry Host sends com-mands to TARG SCSI Check Status (02h)? Host sends REQUEST SENSE CDB (03h) Sense data Byte 2 = xBh? Sense Data Bytes 12 & 13 = 4400h? Sense Data Byte 19 = 4Ch? N N N N Y Y Y P...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-33 8-7 MAINTENANCE TERMINAL The maintenance terminal is attached to the rear of the M2488 via the 9-pin DIN connector. It has two functions, use as a terminal to run diagnostics using keyboard input and as a debug port ...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-34 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 To establish communications with this interface, host configuration settings for maintenance opera-tions are provided in Table 8-25. 8-7.2 Remote Debug for JDB These procedures describe how to establish a debug sessi...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-35 8-8 PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE Refer to the User’s Manual, Chapter 6, for a description of preventive maintenance procedures. 8-9 TAPE PATH CLEANING PROCEDURE If the media created excessive debris buildup on the head or ...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-36 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-10 MANUAL TAPE REMOVAL PROCEDURE When the cartridge tape cannot be ejected automatically, use the procedure that applies to your situa-tion . 8-10.1 Cartridge Tape Stopped During Loading STEP ACTION 1 Remove the to...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-37 8-10.2 Tape Stopped During Threading 8-10.3 Tape Wound on Take-up Reel STEP ACTION 1 Remove the DTC as described in paragraph 8-11.6. 2 Confirm that the tape is not wound into the machine reel. 3 Remove the Threader ...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-38 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-11 REMOVE AND REPLACE PROCEDURES Prior to performing the repair and replace procedures, power off the drive. Disconnect the power cord by pulling on the plug to remove from the electrical outlet. Disconnect all cab...

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MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-42 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table 8-2. FRUs Remove and Replace Procedures FRU TOOLS PARAGRAPH Air Filter screwdriver 8-11.1 on page 8-43 Fan Assembly #2 phillips screwdriver 8-11.2 on page 8-44 IPM (all types) #2 phillips screwdriver 8-11.3 on ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-43 8-11.1 Air Filter Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-3 for location of the air filter. 8-11.1.1 Air Filter Removal This procedure takes approximately five minutes to perform. 8-11.1.2 Air Filter Replacem...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-44 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-11.2 Fan Assembly Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-4 for location of the fan assembly. Ensure that the power has been turned off and that the fan is no longer rotating prior to removing the fan assem...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-45 8-11.3 IPM Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-5 for location of the PCA-IPM. 8-11.3.1 IPM Removal 8-11.3.2 IPM Replacement Figure 8-5. IPM STEP ACTION 1 Disconnect cables and, if applicable, terminator f...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-46 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-11.4 Top Cover Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-6 for location of the top cover. Remove the IPM, if installed, prior to removing the top cover. 8-11.4.1 Top Cover Removal 8-11.4.2 Top Cover Replaceme...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-48 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-11.6 DTC PCBA Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-8 for location of the DTC PCBA. Do not exchange the lithium battery on the DTC PCBA. 8-11.6.1 DTC PCBA Removal 8-11.6.2 DTC PCBA Replacement STEP ACTION...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-50 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-11.7 Threader Assembly Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-9 for location of the Threader Assembly. 8-11.7.1 Threader Assembly Removal 8-11.7.2 Threader Assembly Replacement Figure 8-9. Threader Assembl...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-51 8-11.8 Loader Assembly Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-10 for location of the Loader Assembly. 8-11.8.1 Loader Assembly Removal 8-11.8.2 Loader Assembly Replacement Figure 8-10. Loader Assembly STEP A...

MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE 8-52 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 8-11.9 OP PCA Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-11 for location of the OP PCBA. 8-11.9.1 OP PCA Removal 8-11.9.2 OP PCA Replacement Figure 8-11. OP PCBA STEP ACTION 1 Remove the four screws from the sid...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-53 8-11.10 Power Supply (PSU) Remove and Replace Procedures. Refer to Figure 8-12 for location of the PSU. 8-11.10.1 Power Supply Removal 8-11.10.2 Power Supply Replacement Figure 8-12. PSU STEP ACTION 1 Perform the DTC...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 8-55 8-11.13 WTL PCBA Remove and Replace Procedures Refer to Figure 8-13 for location of the WTL PCBA. 8-11.13.1 WTL PCBA Removal 8-11.13.2 WTL PCBA Replacement Figure 8-13. WTL PCBA STEP ACTION 1 Perform the RDL PCBA rem...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE PARTS REPLACEMENT CATALOG April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A 9-1 CHAPTER 9 PARTS REPLACEMENT CATALOG 9-1 INTRODUCTION This chapter provides parts information on the M2488 Cartridge Tape Drive field replaceable units as described in the following paragraphs: 9-2 FIELD REPLACEABLE UN...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SENSE KEYS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A A-1 APPENDIX A SENSE KEYS The Sense Keys are described in Table A-1. These are the sense keys returned in byte 2, bits 0-3 of the error code sense formats described in paragraph 8-3.1 on page 8-4. Table A-1. Sense Key Descriptions SENSE...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE ASC/ASCQ April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A B-1 APPENDIX B ASC/ASCQ The Additional Sense Code (ASC) and the Additional Sense Code Qualifier (ASCQ) are described in Table B-1 by Sense Key and in Table B-3 by ASC/ASCQ. These are the ASC and ASCQs returned in bytes 12 and 13 of the er...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE ERPA CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A C-1 APPENDIX C ERPA CODES The ERPA codes are described in Table C-1. These are the ERPA codes returned in byte 19 of the error code sense formats or described in paragraph 8-3.1 on page 8-4. Table C-1. ERPA Codes ERPA CODE DESCRIPTION E...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE FAULT SYMPTOM CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A D-1 APPENDIX D FAULT SYMPTOM CODES The Fault Symptom Codes (FSCs) are described in Table D-1 and Table D-2. Refer to Table 8-14 on page 8-15 for the FSCs listed in Table D-1. The FSCs listed in Table D-2 are the FSCs returned i...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE CHK XX ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A E-1 APPENDIX E CHK XX ERROR CODES E-1 CHK XX ERROR CODE DESCRIPTIONS Table E-1 lists the error codes and a brief description of each one. Refer to Chapter 8 for a an explana-tion of this type of error message. Table E-1. CHK xx ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE CHK XX ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A E-7 E-2 CHK XX ERROR CODE REPLACEMENT ACTIONS Table E-2 describes which items should be replaced when a particular CHK xx is displayed. The Replacement Action 1 column lists the item most likely to have caused the error, the nex...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE CHK XX ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A E-11 93 22 94 22 95 22 96 22 97 22 99 22 9A 22 9B 22 9C 22 9D 15 9E 22 A1 15 2 A2 15 2 A3 2 20 A4 20 2 A5 15 2 A9 4 2 AA 4 2 AE 2 15 AF 2 15 B0 2 B1 2 B2 2 15 B3 15 2 B4 20 2 B6 20 2 B9 19 6 C0 2 15 C1 2 15 C2 2 15 C3 22 Table E...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-1 APPENDIX F DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES Table F-1 lists all of the diagnostic tests in the Diagnostic Test Registry for the Tasked Go/No-Go mode, the On-Line mode, and the Off-Line mode. An ‘x’ indicates in...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-7 Table F-3. Routine 1 - Control Store Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x01 0x01 Control store data bus test 0x01 Data miscompare clearing control store address 0 0x02 Data bus bi...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-9 Table F-5. Routine 3 - CP Bus Parity Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x03 0x01 CP Bus parity - Control Store 0x01 An unexpected Check 1 condition was prema-turely detected at th...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x03 0x01 CP Bus parity - Control Store 0x32 A CP bus parity error was not detected after reading byte2 of a word which was previously written with bad parity 0x33 An unexpected Check 1 condition was pend-ing ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-11 0x03 0x02 CP Bus parity - SDDP 0x0A An unexpected Check 1 condition was detected after setting a bit to force bad parity on writes to the SDDP 0x0B A Check 1 condition was not detected after reading a register...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-12 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x03 0x03 CP Bus parity - SPC 0x04 An unexpected Check 1 condition was pend-ing after an attempt to clear it was made 0x05 An expected CP bus parity was not detected after attempting to read an SPC register wi...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-14 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-6. Routine 4 - Read Signal Verification Processor Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x04 * RSVP Routine Initialization 0xE0 Initialization timeout waiting for RSVP to rea...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-17 0x04 0x07 RSVP Counters test - single byte mode 0x0A Timeout waiting for Response Available after setting CECC Order Available testing counter 2, high byte carry out 0x0B RSVP Interrupts not set as expected te...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-18 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x04 0x08 RSVP Counters test - 2 byte mode 0x08 RSVP Interrupts not set as expected testing counter 0 0x09 Register CECC data miscompare after reset-ting Response Available testing counter 0 0x04 0x09 RSVP DBO...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-20 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x07 0x01 SPC CP Bus Bit test 0x01 SPC data bus bit test failed, data miscompare in walking one’s test 0x07 0x02 SPC User Program Memory test 0x01 SPC data miscompare during incremental data pattern test of Us...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-22 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x07 0x05 SPC MPU bus parity test 0x08 The SPC interrupt request could not be cleared 0x09 CP bus parity error was not reported as expected 0x0A Unexpected Check 1 condition was reported after attempting to cl...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-24 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x08 0x03 Formatter Counter 2 test 0x02 A data miscompare occurred walking a one through the Formatter Counter 2 high byte count register 0x03 A data miscompare occurred walking a one through the Formatter Cou...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-25 0x09 0x03 PCC Timers Timer 2 test 0x02 FMT counter 2 low count carry-out bit not set 0x03 Timer 2 running too FAST compared against FMT counter 2. 0x04 Timer 2 running too SLOW compared against FMT counter 2. ...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-26 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x10 * All R20 Control Check Diagnos-tics 0x13 At end of test, SPC interrupt/step code did not report Command Complete. 0x14 At end of test, the SPC interrupt request could not be cleared. 0xEF SPC interrupt r...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-27 0x10 0x02 Read clear 3 bytes 00, mode 0Eh 0x05 A non SUCCESS status was returned from the function call rm_host_rd_complt. A error was detected in the SDDP_HI-hdxs register. 0x07 A byte for byte miscompare was...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-28 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x10 0x04 Read EDRC-NC 3 bytes 00, mode 08h 0x05 A non SUCCESS status was returned from the function call rm_host_rd_complt. A error was detected in the SDDP_HI-hdxs register. 0x07 A byte for byte miscompare w...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-29 0x10 0x06 Read clear 3 bytes 00, mode 0Ah 0x05 A non SUCCESS status was returned from the function call rm_host_rd_complt. A error was detected in the SDDP_HI-hdxs register. 0x07 A byte for byte miscompare was...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-32 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-13. Routine 11 - EDRC Data Buffers Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x11 * All R20 Data Check Diagnostics 0xD0 SPC register initialization failed 0xE0 SPC did not genera...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-38 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-14. Routine 12 - EDRC Address Bus Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x12 * All R20 Address Check Diagnos-tics 0xD0 SPC register initialization failed 0xE0 SPC did not gen...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-43 0x12 0x08 SDDP-R20 Read flush testing, mode 00h 0x04 All the data expected to be transferred from the SPC data_fifo to the SPC receive_buffer was not transferred. 0x05 A non SUCCESS status was returned from th...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-44 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-15. Routine 13 - EDRC Error Detection Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x13 * All R20 Error Check Diagnostics 0xD0 SPC register initialization failed 0xE0 SPC did not ge...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-48 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x13 0x0A Read Sync host_count-high / compression error / sgd host_count-high errs 0x01 Failed to receive data end-of-transfer signal in SDDP hdxs register. 0x02 Incorrect SPC SCSI control signal status wait-i...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-49 0x13 0x0C Read Sync host_crc / compression error / sgd host_crc errors 0x06 SDDP failed to report expected data compres-sion host count error. 0x07 SDDP failed to report expected data compres-sion host CRC err...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-50 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-16. Routine 20 - Loop Write to Read Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x20 * All Loop Write to Read tests 0xA0 FDXS Xreg - expected data not equal to received data 0xA1 F...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-67 Table F-18. Routine 51 - Incrementing Block Length Test Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x51 * Incrementing block length tests 0xE0 DVL card connection was not detected by the DTC. 0xE1 A...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-68 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 0x51 0x03 Read incrementing blocks test 0x03 Data transfer timeout error. 0x04 Error reported during data transfer. 0x05 Fatal error reported at completion of data transfer. 0x06 Incorrect transfer length, ret...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-72 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-20. Routine 80 Test 06 - Servo ACL Error Codes in Sense Byte 19 ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x80 0x06 Sense Byte 19 for ACL 0x01 Bottom stopper up and down sensors both on 0x02 Bottom sto...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-73 Table F-21. Routine 80 Test 06 - Servo FACL Error Codes in Sense Byte 19 ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x80 0x06 Sense byte 19 for FACL 0x01 Door close sensor or door solenoid lock sen-sor off erro...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-74 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-22. Routine 81 - Manufacturing Test Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x81 * MFG tests 0xE0 DVL card not detected. This test cannot be run without a DVL card connected to...

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE F-76 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Table F-23. Routine 82 - Magnetic Tape Unit Diagnostic Error Codes ROUTINE TEST TITLE ERROR CODE DESCRIPTION 0x82 * MTU diagnostics routine 0xE0 A DVL card was not detected. This routine requires that the DTC ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-77 0x83 0x01 Operator Control Panel keys test 0x06 START switch release not detected in allotted time. 0x07 TEST switch press not detected in allotted time. 0x08 TEST switch release not detected in allotted time....

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND ERROR CODES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A F-79 0x90 0x08 Drive Diag: ACL LDUL test 0xE9 Magazine or magazine type not detected. 0xEA No cartridges detected in magazine. Must have at least one working cartridge installed in a magazine to run this test. 0x02...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE SUPPORTED SCSI TRANSFER RATES April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A G-1 APPENDIX G SUPPORTED SCSI TRANSFER RATES The SCSI transfer rates that will be supported are determined by the available oscillator frequency, 20 MHz. Table G-1. SCSI Transfer Rates for 20 MHz XFR REG VALUE (DEC) T...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A H-1 APPENDIX H MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS This appendix contains the Magnetic Tape Unit (MTU) DIAG Specifications (SCSI/RS-232C). H-1 OUTLINE For the M2488 test routines, such as DIAGs for the life test and evaluat...

MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE H-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 READ/WRITE test Read/write test FWD READ Forward read test CMD CD : 0x11 BWD READ Backward read test CMD CD : 0x12 WRITE Write test CMD CD : 0x13 FRD/BRD FRD<->BRD test CMD CD : 0x14 L.W.R. loop write to rea...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A H-3 H-4 MTU DIAG PARAMETER H-4.1 DIAG activation parameter The total data requirement for the MTU DIAG activation is 480 bytes. H-4.2 Explanation The parameter for the DIAG activation is composed of 16 groups. Each gr...

MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE H-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 execution time : For the read/write DIAG, specifies the execution time of the read/write. For the path test, specifies start position. For the ACL DIAG, specifies a cleaning count (FACL only). stop time : For the ...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A H-5 The tests can be set using the following parameters: H-4.3.2 LOAD/UNLOAD: Two diagnostic tests to check loading and unloading (Set the tests in detail using the given parameters.) The tests can be set using the fo...

MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE H-6 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 H-4.3.3 ACL TEST: Two diagnostic tests to check the autoloader (Set the tests in detail using the given parameters.) The tests can be set using the following parameters: H-4.3.4 TESTMODE: Diagnostic test to measur...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A H-7 H-4.3.4.1 M1:LOAD: Cartridge loading time measurement Load a cartridge and measure the following operation time during loading. The cartridge type may be normal or E. H-4.3.4.2 M2:TPPFM: Measure the tape accelerat...

MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE H-8 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 H-4.3.4.5 M5:LOCAT: Tape locating time measurement Measure the time required for tape locating from the wrap-1 BOT position to the wrap-1 PEOT position. (Unit: 1/10 sec)The measured data is stored in either of two...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A H-9 H-4.4 COMBINATION : Running test by combining up to ten commands The tests can be set using the following parameters : For example: After end of 5th group, command code is set following: DIAG command code is set “...

MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE H-10 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 H-5 PARAMETER LIST FORWARD READ test : name : code DIAG command code : FORWARD READ test : 0x11 or 0x01 DIAG parameter 1 : Set the operation mode : 0x00 or 0x01 DIAG parameter 2 : Specify a test wrap : 0x00 or 0x...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE MTU DIAGNOSTIC SPECIFICATIONS April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A H-21 H-6 DIAG RESULT DATA The MTU DIAG execution result takes up 512 bytes. Explanation The DIAG execution result data is divided into groups. Each group requires 32 bytes. The result data is stored in an area corresp...

FLOWCHARTS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE I-2 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Figure I-1. Operator Panel Flowchart STA R T OFFLINE DIAGMODE SETTING STA R T (r el ease) Press TEST and UNLOAD (hold fo r 3 sec onds ) LOADCODE STA R T INQUIRY STA R T MODE PAGES STA R T A FACTORY STA R T A CE MOD E TES T TES T TES...

FLOWCHARTS M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE I-4 CG00000-011503 REV. A April 1997 Figure I-4. LIST ERROR Flowchart Figure I-5. RS-232 Flowchart ERRORS TEST RUN CNT= ERR CNT= RESET F LIST ERROR Display Error No. If error displayed, hold TEST to scroll message. Back to test in error (From Figure I-1) RS-232? G Enab...

M2488 PRODUCT GUIDE INDEX April 1997 CG00000-011503 REV. A Index-1 INDEX This is the index for theProduct Guide. PAGE A ASC/ASCQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1 Action Advised Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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