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The valid states for media in the FileServ system include thefollowing:State Description
Protect Reserved for read-only operations.
Unprotect Availablefor read and write operations.
Available Error free and resident in the storage
subsystem.
Unavailable Not used because it is removed from the
storage subsystem or has ex tensive errors.
Suspect A read/write or position error occurred wi th
that media in a drive.
Unsuspect Free from errors and problems.
Unmark Media is error free and not designated for any
copy or check-out operations.
Mark An error has occurred in the handling of
media, or there were read or wri te errors, or it
is marked for copy or checkout o perations.
To can cel a Mark Status of Error or Checkout
action, change media to unmark. These are
the only states against which th e unmark
state can be applied.
Noerr The noerr state resets the thresholdcount to
0 for the media. If any SER values are
exceeded during a read or write request, the
threshold count is incriminated. Cumulative
threshold errors indicate that a problemmay
exist with the media or the drive.Examine the
system logs to aid in determiningthe source of
the error.