Media flags have the following meanings:
A means that the slot needs an audit.
C means that the slot contains cleaning cartridge.
D means that the volume is a media migration destination.
E means that the volume is bad or the cleaning media has expired.
L means that the volume is a Linear Tape File System (LTFS) volume.
N means that the volume is not in Oracle HSM format.
R means that the volume is read-only (a software flag).
S means that the volume is media migration source.
U means that the volume is unavailable.
W means that the volume is physically write-protected.
X means that the slot is an export slot.
b means that the volume has a bar code.
c means that the volume is scheduled for recycling
f means that the archiver found the volume full or corrupt.
d means that the volume has a duplicate volume serial number (VSN)
l means that the volume is labeled.
o means that the slot is occupied.
p means that the volume is a high priority volume.
-, when used in displays, means that the corresponding flag is not set.
For example, the samcmd v lists catalog information, including media flags for each cataloged volume:
root@solaris:~# samcmd v 800 Robot catalog samcmd 6.1 16:45:25 Feb 14 2016 samcmd on samqfshost count 32 Robot VSN catalog by slot : eq 800 slot access time count use flags ty vsn 0 2014/03/14 11:23 875 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL001 1 2014/03/13 17:54 866 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL002 2 2014/03/14 11:26 3 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL003 3 2014/03/14 10:33 3 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL004 4 2014/03/14 11:34 5 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL005 5 2014/03/14 11:32 2 0% -ilEo-b----f li VOL006 MEDIA ERROR 6 2014/03/13 18:07 2 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL007 7 2014/03/13 18:07 1 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL008 10 2014/03/13 18:10 2 0% -il-o-b----- li VOL011