SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem (G06.24+, H06.03+)

Configuring and Managing Tape Drives
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Managing a Tape Drive
Managing a Tape Drive
Management tasks for tape drives include:
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Enabling or Disabling Labeled-Tape Processing on page 13-13
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Resetting a Tape Drive on page 13-14
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Starting a Tape Drive on page 13-14
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Stopping a Tape Drive on page 13-15
For information about I/O commands for managing tape drives, see the Guardian
Procedure Calls Reference Manual.
Enabling or Disabling Labeled-Tape Processing
The LABELTAPE attribute (page 14-89) of the ALTER command toggles labeled-tape
processing. Although this labeled-tape processing setting overrides the CONFTEXT
entry, it is in turn overridden by the BLPCHECK or NLCHECK options of the
MEDIACOM ALTER TAPEDRIVE command (described in the DSM/Tape Catalog
Operator Interface (MEDIACOM) Manual).
To enable labeled-tape processing:
1. Stop all available tape drives on the system:
-> STOP TAPE $*
2. Enable labeled-tape processing for the system:
-> ALTER $ZZSTO, LABELTAPE ON
3. Restart all available tape drives:
-> START TAPE $*
4. Exit SCF, then start the $ZSVR tape server process:
-> EXIT
> ZSERVER /NAME $ZSVR, NOWAIT, CPU primary-cpu / backup-cpu
To turn off labeled-tape processing:
1. Stop the $ZSVR tape server process:
-> STOP $ZSVR
2. Start SCF, then stop all available tape drives on the system:
> SCF
-> STOP TAPE $*
3. Disable labeled-tape processing for the system:
-> ALTER $ZZSTO, LABELTAPE OFF