HP LTO Ultrium 4 drives technical reference manual, volume 2: software integration 67
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4h—HW ERROR
The following actions apply to most additional sense codes for HW ERROR sense key:
53 00 Media load or eject failed A load or eject has failed.
Action: 1. Terminate the current I/O and return the appropriate
error.
2. Inform the user that a serious fault has been detected
with the tape cartridge.
3. Advise the user to discard this cartridge and select a
new one.
4. Log the incident in the system log.
53 04 Medium thread or
unthread failure
The threading or unthreading operation failed.
Action: 1. Terminate the current I/O and return the appropriate
error.
2. Inform the user that a serious fault has been detected
with the tape cartridge.
3. Advise the user to discard this cartridge and select a
new one.
4. Log the incident in the system log.
Code Meaning Comments
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.
Code Meaning Comments
40 XX Diagnostic failure on
component XX
A self-test command has detected an error, or a
command is prohibited from execution due to failure of a
previous diagnostic. “XX” is a vendor-specific code
indicating the failing component.
Action: see above
44 00 Internal target failure This code is used to report hardware and firmware
related hard errors that occur when the drive encounters
an “impossible” situation.
Action: see above
