Sony SDT-9000 Error Codes: List of 19 Codes and Their Meaning

This is the list of error codes the Sony manual gives for the SDT-9000 tape drive. Find your code below and open it for what the manual says about its causes and what to do.

Error codes from p. 118

Code	What it means	Page
`0002`	END-OF-PARTITION/MEDIUM DETECTED	p. 118
`0C00`	WRITE ERROR	p. 118
`1100`	UNRECOVERED READ ERROR	p. 118
`1108`	INCOMPLETE BLOCK READ	p. 118
`1403`	END-OF-DATA NOT FOUND	p. 118
`1404`	BLOCK SEQUENCE ERROR	p. 118
`1502`	POSITIONING ERROR DETECTED BY READ OF MEDIUM	p. 118
`3000`	INCOMPATIBLE MEDIUM INSTALLED	p. 118
`3002`	CANNOT READ MEDIUM, INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT	p. 118
`3100`	MEDIUM FORMAT CORRUPTED	p. 118
`3300`	TAPE LENGTH ERROR	p. 118
`3B00`	SEQUENTIAL POSITIONING ERROR	p. 118
`3B01`	TAPE POSITION ERROR AT BEGINNING-OF-MEDIUM	p. 118
`3B08`	REPOSITION ERROR	p. 118
`5000`	WRITE APPEND ERROR	p. 118
`70NN`	DECOMPRESSION EXCEPTION SHORT ALGORITHM ID OF NN	p. 118
`7100`	DECOMPRESSION EXCEPTION LONG ALGORITHM ID	p. 118
`0900`	TRACK FOLLOWING ERROR	p. 119
`4400`	INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE	p. 119

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