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Media Type
The Media Type field along with the Media Domain field provides a
hierarchy of information that indicates the type of media in the element.
If the Media Domain field is 43h (43h is ‘C’), the value reported for the
Media Type field identifies in ASCII the type of LTO cleaning cartridge:
1 = The element contains an HP Generation 1 LTO cleaning cartridge.
2 = The element contains an IBM Generation 1 LTO cleaning cartridge.
3 = The element contains a Quantum Generation 1 LTO cleaning cartridge.
U = The element contains a Universal LTO cleaning cartridge.
FFh = The media type cannot be determined.
This field is not valid if the Full bit is not set.
If the Media Domain field is 4Ch (4Ch is ‘L’), the value reported for the
Media Type field identifies in ASCII the type of LTO cartridge:
1 = The element contains a 100 GB Generation 1 LTO cartridge.
2 = The element contains a 200 GB Generation 2 LTO cartridge.
3 = The element contains a 400 GB Generation 3 LTO cartridge.
4 = The element contains an 800 GB Generation 4 LTO cartridge.
5 = The element contains a 1500 GB Generation 5 LTO cartridge.
6 = The element contains a 2500 GB Generation 6 LTO cartridge.
7 = The element contains a 6000 GB Generation 7 LTO cartridge.
T = The element contains a 400 GB Generation 3 LTO WORM cartridge.
U = The element contains an 800 GB Generation 4 LTO WORM cartridge.
V = The element contains a 1500 GB Generation 5 LTO WORM cartridge.
W = The element contains a 2500 GB Generation 6 LTO WORM cartridge.
X = The element contains a 6000 GB Generation 7 LTO WORM cartridge.
FFh = The media type cannot be determined
This field is not valid if the Full bit is not set.