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Tape Drives: Monitoring and Recovery Monitoring Tape Drive Status With MEDIACOM

Monitoring Tape Drive Status With MEDIACOM

The MEDIACOM command STATUS TAPEDRIVE displays the current status of a tape drive. Among other things, this command tells you whether a tape is mounted on the drive, the name of the DEFINE associated with the tape, and which volume catalog and pool owns it.

Note. Manual unloading of a tape is not detected by a tape drive, so information from STATUS TAPEDRIVE can be out of date. For example, STATUS TAPEDRIVE could report that a drive currently has a tape mounted when the tape was removed from the drive by the operator before the command executed.

To check the status of all tape drives on your system with MEDIACOM:

> MEDIACOM STATUS TAPEDRIVE

A listing similar to this one is sent to your home terminal:

MEDIACOM - T6028D42 (18DEC98)
Creating default server.
Tape Drive	Drive	Tape	Tape	Label	Open	Process Name
	Status	Name	Status	Type	Mode
-----------	------	-----	------	--------	------	---------------------
$XTAPE	DOWN
$TAPE0	FREE

2 tape drives returned.

The DSM/Tape Catalog Operator Interface (MEDIACOM) Manual explains the fields in this output.

Example

To obtain status information about the tape drive $TAPE0 by using MEDIACOM:

> MEDIACOM STATUS TAPEDRIVE $TAPE0

A listing such as this one is sent to your home terminal:

MEDIACOM - T6028D42 (18DEC98)
Tape Drive	Drive	Tape	Tape	Label	Open	Process Name
	Status	Name	Status	Type	Mode
-----------	-----	-----	------	-------	------	-----------------
$TAPE0	FREE

1 tape drive returned.

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