DSM/Tape Catalog Operator Interface (MEDIACOM) Manual

MEDIACOM Commands
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STATUS TAPEDRIVE Command
STATUS TAPEDRIVE Command
STATUS TAPEDRIVE displays the current status of a tape drive. Among other things,
this command tells you if a tape is mounted on the drive, the name of the DEFINE
associated with the tape, and which volume catalog and pool own it.
STATUS TAPEDRIVE
entered without a tape drive name and BRIEF or DETAIL, displays a brief report on
the home terminal for all tape drives on the current default node.
\node.$tape
\node.*
\node
is a tape drive name. Include \node when the drive is not on your current default
node.
BRIEF | DETAIL
specifies how much information you want retrieved. BRIEF, the default, retrieves
less information than DETAIL. For report formats, see Considerations
on
page 2-165.
Considerations

Format of brief report
The brief format begins with a two-line header followed by the information, as
Figure 2-10 shows.
Note. Manual unloading of a tape is not detected by a tape drive, so information from STATUS
TAPEDRIVE can be out of date. For example, STATUS TAPEDRIVE might report that a drive
currently has a tape mounted when the tape was removed from the drive by the operator
before the command executed.
STATUS TAPEDRIVE [ [ \node.]$tape ] [ , BRIEF | DETAIL ]
[ [ \node.]* ]
[ \node ]
Figure 2-10. STATUS TAPEDRIVE Brief Format
Drive Tape Tape Label Open
Tape Drive Status Name Status Type Mode Process Name
---------- ------ ---- ------ ----- ---- ------------
$tape dstat tname tstat label open $proc