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Drive Temperature : ReportableInFailureOnly

Drive Voltage : ReportableInFailureOnly

Predictive Failure : ReportableInFailureOnly

Diagnostics Required : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Hardware A : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Stray Tape : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Hardware B : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Door : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Hardware C : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Magazine : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loader Predictive Failure : ReportableInFailureOnly

Lost Statistics : ReportableInFailureOnly

Tape Directory Invalid at Unload : ReportableInFailureOnly

Tape System : ReportableInFailureOnly

Tape System Read Failure : ReportableInFailureOnly

No Start of Data : ReportableInFailureOnly

Loading Failure : ReportableInFailureOnly

Terminating program.

In the situation above, there are two tape drives attached. The Tandberg drive has full TapeAlert capability and

including the ability to report to a calling program programmatically which features it supports. The HP drive also

supports TapeAlert, but it is not smart enough to let a program know exactly what features it supports.

Be sure to refer to the ANSI specification images to know exactly what each message means and whether

they are informational, warnings, or critical messages.

If you invoke SMARTMON-UX with the -X option, it will poll tapes at the specified polling periods and produce a

message such as:

\\.\TAPE0 polled at Sun Aug 18 23:19:21 2002 Status:Passed

If there was a problem, you might see:

\\.\TAPE0 polled at Sun Aug 18 23:26:49 2002 Status:Not Data Grade - The

cartridge is not data grade. Data written to it will be at risk.

Note that it is possible that in the event of a TapeAlert, you will get more than one message per polling cycle.

1.44 TapeAlert ANSI Descriptions

The pages below are from the ANSI manual which describe all of the TapeAlerts in detail. In the event SMARTMON

informs you that you have a TapeAlert condition, please contact your tape supplier to determine what corrective

action may be required.

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