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Handle Programmable Early Warning for control commands in sa(4).

Description

Handle Programmable Early Warning for control commands in sa(4).

When the tape position is inside the Early Warning area, the tape
drive will return a sense key of NO SENSE, and an ASC/ASCQ of
0x00,0x02, which means: End-of-partition/medium detected". If
this was in response to a control command like WRITE FILEMARKS,
we correctly translate this as informational status and return
0 from saerror().

Programmable Early Warning should be handled the same way, but
we weren't handling it that way. As a result, if a PEW status
(sense key of NO SENSE, ASC/ASCQ of 0x00,0x07, "Programmable early
warning detected") came back in response to a WRITE FILEMARKS,
we returned an error.

The impact of this was that if an application was writing to a
sa(4) device, and a PEW area was set (in the Device Configuration
Extension subpage -- mode page 0x10, subpage 1), and a filemark
needed to be written on close, we could wind up returning an error
to the user on close because of a "failure" to write the filemarks.

It actually isn't a failure, but rather just a status report from
the drive, and shouldn't be treated as a failure.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_sa.c:
For control commands in saerror(), treat asc/ascq 0x00,0x07
the same as 0x00,{0-5} -- not an error. Return 0, since
the command actually did succeed.

Reported by: Dr. Andreas Haakh <andreas@haakh.de>
Tested by: Dr. Andreas Haakh <andreas@haakh.de>
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 3 days

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