Guardian User's Guide

Using Labeled Tapes

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Common Labeled Tape Activities

There are several basic tasks you might need to perform as part of your labeled tape

activities, including:

Checking the Status of Tape Drives

You can list the tape drives on your system and determine their status by using either

MEDIACOM or SCF.

Checking Status Using MEDIACOM

To check the status of all tape drives on your system with MEDIACOM, enter:

> MEDIACOM STATUS TAPEDRIVE

A listing similar to this is sent to your home terminal:

The fields in this display are explained in the DSM/Tape Catalog Operator Interface

(MEDIACOM) Manual.

RECFORM Tape record format

RECLEN Record length for the tape file

REELS Number of volumes (reels or cartridges) in a multivolume file

RETENTION Retention period for the tape file

SYSTEM Name of the system that controls the tape drive

TAPEMODE Specifies the operating mode for a cartridge tape drive

USE Specifies how the tape file is to be used (as input or output)

VERSION Version within one generation

VOLUME Six-byte tape volume ID identifying the tape, or SCRATCH to indicate that

any scratch tape is acceptable

Checking the Status of Tape Drives 10-10

Setting a Default Tape Drive 10-12

Taking Down and Bringing Up a Tape Drive 10-13

MEDIACOM - T6028D20 (01JUN93)

Drive Tape Tape Label Open

Tape Drive Status Name Status Type Mode Process Name

---------- ------ ---- ------ ----- ---- ------------

$TAPE1 INUSE TT0046 ASSIGNED ANSI LP \SKY.$BURT

$TAPE2 INUSE TT0047 ASSIGNED ANSI LP \SKY.$SID

Table 10-2. TAPE DEFINE Attributes (page 2 of 2)

Attribute Function