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Commands
The MAM Capacity is the total capacity of the MAM, in bytes, at manufacture
time. It does not indicate the free space of a ‘blank’ MAM as some of the
MAM space may be reserved for device-specific use that is inaccessible to the
application client.
The Medium Type and Medium Type Information attributes give information
about non-data media and other types of media. The Medium Type
Information attribute is interpreted according to the type of medium indicated
by the Medium Type. Defined values are shown in Table 17.
Host Common Attributes
Application clients may use the READ ATTRIBUTE and WRITE ATTRIBUTE
commands to maintain the attributes shown in Table 18. All the attributes are
read/write (Read-Only = 0).
The Application Vendor attribute identifies the manufacturer of the application
client (e.g. backup program). The Application Vendor field should contain a
value listed in the Vendor Identification list (see Annex D).
Note It is intended that this field provide a unique Vendor
Identification of the vendor who wrote the Host Common
Medium Type Meaning Medium Type Information
00h Data medium Reserved
01h Cleaning medium Maximum number of cleaning cycles permitted
02h–7Fh Reserved Reserved
80h Write-once medium Reserved
81h–FFh Reserved Reserved
ID Attribute Name Size in Bytes Format
0800h Application Vendor 8 ASCII
0801h Application Name 32 ASCII
0802h Application Version 8 ASCII
0803h User Medium Text Label 160 Text
0804h Data & Time Last Written 12 ASCII
0805h Text Localization Identifier 1 Binary
0806h Barcode 32 ASCII
0807h Owning Host Textual Name 80 Text
0808h Media Pool 160 Text
0809h Partition User Text Label 16 ASCII
080Ah Load/Unload at Partition 1 Binary
080Bh–BFFh Reserved
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