IOCTL_TAPE_GET_DRIVE_PARAMS IOCTL

Description

Returns information about the tape drive's capabilities, such as its default block size, maximum and minimum block sizes, maximum partition count, whether the drive has EEC, compression, data padding, and report-setmark capabilities, that is, which configurable features the drive supports, including the EOT warning zone size.

Parameters

Major code

Input buffer

None.

Input buffer length

None.

Output buffer

The driver returns the TAPE_GET_DRIVE_PARAMETERS data in the buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer.

Output buffer length

Parameters.DeviceIoControl.OutputBufferLength in the I/O stack location indicates the size, in bytes, of the parameter buffer, which must be >= sizeof(TAPE_GET_DRIVE_PARAMETERS).

Input/output buffer

Input/output buffer length

Status block

The Information field is set to the number of bytes returned. The Status field is set to STATUS_SUCCESS, or possibly to STATUS_INFO_LENGTH_MISMATCH, STATUS_IO_DEVICE_ERROR, STATUS_DEVICE_DATA_ERROR, STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE, STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT, or STATUS_DEVICE_NOT_READY.

See also

TAPE_GET_DRIVE_PARAMETERS

TAPE_STATUS

TapeMiniGetDriveParameters