Tape Drive Operation

 

 

 

 

 

Drive Status screen (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Occupied

 

0 – There is no cartridge loaded in the tape drive.

 

 

 

1 – There is currently a cartridge loaded in the tape drive.

 

 

 

 

 

Occ Valid

 

0 – The door has been opened or some other interruption has

 

 

 

occurred so the occupied information may not be reliable.

 

 

 

1 – The occupied information is reliable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following table shows additional fields on the Mammoth

 

 

 

Drive Status screen.

 

 

 

 

 

Mammoth Drive Status

 

 

 

 

 

Cart

Displays the status of a data cartridge, if any, in this tape drive.

 

 

￿ Loaded – A cartridge is in the tape drive and the tape is loaded into the

 

 

 

tape path.

 

 

￿ Loading – A cartridge is being loaded into the tape drive.

 

 

￿ Unloading – A cartridge is being unloaded from the tape drive.

 

 

￿ Present – A cartridge is in the tape drive, but the tape is not loaded in

 

 

 

the tape path.

 

 

￿ Empty – The tape drive does not contain a cartridge.

 

 

 

 

Tape left

Displays how much tape is left, in megabytes, on the cartridge currently

 

 

in the tape drive.

 

 

 

 

Tape size

Displays the total amount of tape, in megabytes, on the cartridge

 

 

currently in the tape drive.

 

 

 

 

Tape fmt

Displays the data format of the cartridge currently in the tape drive.

 

 

 

 

PO Sec

Displays the power-on seconds.

 

 

 

 

Mo. Sec

Displays the tape motion seconds.

 

 

 

 

Serial

Displays the tape drive’s serial number.

 

 

 

 

BOOT

Displays the code level of the tape drive’s boot ROM.

 

 

 

 

FLASH

Displays the code level of the tape drive’s flash EPROM.

 

 

 

 

 

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