Administrative Tasks

Create a Drive

After all archives at a site are successfully configured and

 

registered with VolServ, at least one drive must be defined and

 

associated with an archive.

 

 

 

 

Note

 

 

 

 

 

VolServ has to be running to define a drive.

 

 

 

 

 

The Create Drive command is used to define a drive; four

 

drive statistics are associated with it. These are the usage count,

 

current usage time, total usage time, and error count. These

 

built-in statistics are provided by VolServ software, but only the

 

usage count is automatically updated by VolServ software.

 

Usage count indicates the number of times that media are

 

mounted to a drive.

 

VolServ clients are responsible for keeping the other three

 

statistics values updated. It is recommended that they be

 

defined as follows:

 

• Current usage time indicates read/write operation time in

 

seconds since the latest preventive maintenance

 

• Total usage time indicates the read/write operation time in

 

seconds since the drive definition

 

• Error count indicates the number of read/write errors

 

All statistics are initialized to zero when a drive is defined. Two

 

of these statistics are cleared when a drive is varied to an

 

on-line state. Refer to “Vary Drive” on page 4-22.

 

Drive definition is performed via the GUI. Its parameters

 

consist of the drive ID and media type that the drive supports.

 

After a drive is defined, it cannot be changed. It must be deleted

 

and defined again.

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ADIC 601354 manual Create a Drive

601354 specifications

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