Commands54
Locate specific status:
CP Change Partition. This field is not supported and should be set to zero.
Immed 0 The drive only reports status after the Locate command has completed.
1 The drive reports status when it starts the command and continues with the positioning in
the background.
BAM 0 This field is not supported.
Block
Address
The Block Address specifies the number of blocks and filemarks between BOM and the
position to be located.
Partition Not supported.
Dest type 00b Specifies that the Logical Identifier field is a logical object identifier.
01b Specifies that the Logical Identifier field is a logical file identifier.
Other values are not supported.
Logical
Identifier
The specific block on tape to locate. It can be a generic block, either a record or a filemark
(Dest Type = 00b) or a specific filemark on tape (Dest Type = 01b).
Event Status Key Additional Sense
EOD encountered CHECK CONDN BLANK CHECK 0005h (EOD encountered).
EOM encountered CHECK CONDN MEDIUM ERROR 0002h (EOT encountered). EOM bit set.
Failed to read data—
media error or non-fatal
drive error
CHECK CONDN HARDWARE ERROR 3B00h (sequential positioning error)
Early Warning EOM
encountered
Early warning end of medium information is not reported for Locate commands
Data format corrupt CHECK CONDN MEDIUM ERROR 3001h (can’t read media, unknown format)
