Instruction manual

75 Operating the Web Control Panel
Cybernetics UM-MV-86-B1-0801
Physical Tape Drive Device Panel
When selected in the device tree, a physical tape drive will reveal a device panel
in the frame on the “Devices” tab. The device panel presents the status informa-
tion for the tape drive (See Figure 3-28).
The physical tape drive status information is presented with the following fields:
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Model: Tape drive model, as returned from the SCSI Inquiry command
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Firmware version: Tape drive firmware, as returned from the SCSI Inquiry
command
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Serial number: Tape drive serial number, as returned from the SCSI Inquiry
command
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Drive state: Current physical tape drive activity as one of the following: “Not in
use”, “Host access: virtual tape drive”, “Host access: virtual stacker”, or “Assigned
to a job”. Physical stacker tape drives will also report when reading/writing a
physical tape header or copying to a virtual tape.
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Drive status: Tape drive mechanism condition, which reports “OK”, unless the
drive is requesting that you load a cleaning tape (“NEEDS CLEANING”), the drive
is reporting a serious problem that prevents normal operation (“HARDWARE
ERROR”), or the drive is not responding to commands (“OFFLINE”); check power
and connections
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Tape name: Name of the currently-loaded physical tape
Figure 3-28 Physical Tape Drive Device Panel