Sense keys and codes62
HP restricted
3h—MEDIUM ERROR
Code Meaning Comments
00 02 End of Tape detected A
READ, SPACE, WRITE or WRITE FILEMARKS command
found EOT unexpectedly. This typically occurs when a
drive cannot locate the target object on tape because the
block count is too great.The EOM flag will be set.
Action: 1. Recovery action depends on the initiating action. As a
minimum, tell the calling application that physical
EOP/M has been encountered. Also display this
information as a console message.
2. Send any residue information to the calling
application.
0C 00 Write error The drive has failed to write data or filemarks to tape.
This is probably due to bad media, but may be
hardware-related. Residue information will normally be
supplied.
Action: 1. Terminate the current I/O and return the appropriate
error.
2. The software should disable all further transactions to
the drive and mark the drive as ‘bad’.
3. The software should tell the user that a serious fault
has been detected with the drive and advise them to
call their technical support.
4. Log the incident in the system log.
