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· Drive Maintenance - Preventive maintenance on the drive is required.
· Hardware Fault A - The tape drive has vendor-defined hardware fault (requires reset to recover).
· Hardware Fault B - The tape drive has vendor-defined hardware fault (requires power cycle to recover).
· Interface - The tape drive has a problem with the application client interface.
· Eject Media - The operation has failed (eject, reinsert, restart application).
· Download Fail - The last firmware download failed.
· Drive Humidity - Environmental conditions inside the tape drive are outside the specified range.
· Drive Temperature - Environmental conditions inside the tape drive are outside the specified range.
· Drive Voltage - Power conditions are outside the specified range.
· Predictive Failure - A hardware failure of the tape drive is predicted.
· Diagnostics Required - The tape drive may have a hardware fault. Run diagnostics.
· Loader Hardware A - The changer mechanism is having difficulty communicating with the tape drive.
· Loader Stray Tape - A tape has been left in the autoloader by a previous hardware fault.
· Loader Hardware B - The loader mechanism has a hardware fault.
· Loader Door - The operation has failed because the autoloader door is open.
· Loader Hardware C - The autoloader has a hardware fault that is not mechanically related.
· Loader Magazine - The autoloader cannot operate without the magazine.
· Loader Predictive Failure - A hardware failure of the changer mechanism is predicted.
· Lost Statistics - Media statistics have been lost at some time in the past.
· Tape Directory Invalid at Unload - The tape directory on the tape cartridge just unloaded has been
corrupted.
· Tape System - The tape just unloaded could not write its system area successfully.
· Tape System Read Failure - The tape system area could not be read successfully at load time.
· No Start of Data - The start of data could not be found on the tape.
· Loading Failure - The operation has failed because the media cannot be loaded and threaded.
1.43 TapeAlert Viewer
TapeAlert refers to the capability of a tape device to provide detailed diagnostic information using the ANSI standard
interface, conveniently called TapeAlert. Many modern SCSI and Fibre Channel tape drives support this feature. In
general, the more expensive and robust a tape or auto changer is, the higher the probability it will have this feature.
Although the ANSI specification defines 64 flags, (click here to see it ) several of them are reserved for
future use. In addition, not all flags are used by all tape devices. See the table below for details. SMARTMon-UX
reports all of the flags. In order to poll tape devices automatically, invoke the program with the -X option and be sure
to pass it the physical device names for your tape devices. If the tape does not support TapeAlert, the program will tell
you and move on.
If you wish to view the TapeAlert-related capabilities of your tape or auto changer, invoke the program with the -X+
option. This will cause it to report all supported and unsupported TapeAlert features.
smartmon-ux -X+
SMARTMon-ux [Release 1.12, Build 18-AUG-2002] - Copyright 2002 SANtools, Inc. http://www.SANtools.com
Discovered TANDBERG SLR7 S/N "SN007005396" on \\.\TAPE0 (tape - TapeAlert enabled) [Adapter/ID.LUN=3/3.0]
TapeAlert status and capabilities dump below:
Read Warning : Unsupported
Write Warning : Passed
Hard Error : Passed
Media Error : Passed
Read Error : Passed
Write Error : Unsupported
End of Media Life : Unsupported
Not Data Grade : Unsupported
Write Protect : Unsupported
No Removal : Unsupported
Cleaning Media : Unsupported
Unsupported Format : Unsupported
Recoverable Snapped Tape : Unsupported
Unrecoverable Snapped Tape : Unsupported
Memory Chip Failure : Unsupported
Forced Eject : Unsupported
Read-Only Format : Unsupported
Tape Directory Corrupted : Unsupported
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