SCSI | Tape | Utilities Service Aid |
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This | service | aid | provides | a | means | to obtain | the | status or | maintenance information | |
from | a | SCSI | tape | drive. | Only | some | models of | SCSI | tape drive | are supported. |
The service aid provides the following options:
Ÿ Display time since a tape drive was last cleaned.
The time since the drive was last cleaned is displayed onto the screen. In addition, a message whether the drive is recommended to be cleaned will also be displayed.
Ÿ Copy a tape drive's trace table.
Ÿ The trace table of the tape drive is written to diskettes.
The required diskettes must be | formatted | for | DOS. | Writing the trace table may | |||||
require several diskettes. The actual number of required diskettes will be |
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determined by the service aid | based | on | the | size | of | the | trace table. The | names | |
of the data files is of the following format: |
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'TRACE<X>.DAT' where 'X' is the a | sequential | diskette | number. | The | complete |
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trace table consists of the sequential | concatenation | of | all | the | diskette data | files. | |||
