Tape Drive Features
1-16 StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive Operator’s Guide
■ T10000C drive counters can be updated after appropriate firmware updates are
installed.
■ Cartridge can be reclaimed by a T10000C or D drive.
For a native data cartridge or Sport cartridge written by a T10000D drive, the:
■ RFID can be:
– Read by a T10000A, B, C, or D drive.
– Updated by a T10000D drive.
■ MIR can be read by a T10000D drive.
■ MIR cannot be updated by a T10000A, B, or C drive.
■ T10000D drive counters can be updated after appropriate firmware updates are
installed.
■ Cartridge can be reclaimed by a T10000D drive.
Invalid Media Information Conditions
There are four media invalid conditions for the T10000 drives:
■ Cartridge's RFID is unreadable. The drive refuses to mount the cartridge (FSC of
403B). Return the cartridge to engineering to recover the customer data.
■ Cartridge's RFID can be partially read. The drive mounts the cartridge as
read-only.
■ RFID and MIR are out-of-sync. None of the block information, coarse-grained in
the RFID or fine-grained in the MIR, can be trusted. The cartridge is usable but the
drive must rebuild the block information as it sequentially reads all of the data up
to the desired customer data.
Note: This scenario can cause the drive to spend an hour or more
rebuilding the block information, potentially causing the
application running on the host to time out.
■ MIR is corrupted or unreadable. The fine-grained block location information on
the cartridge cannot be used; the tape can be used with the coarse-grained block
information on the RFID but with lower performance.
The drive posts a 4031 or 4032 informational FSC whenever it loads a cartridge
with an invalid MIR. When a tape cartridge has an invalid media information,
some action is required to correct it. Invalid media information can be corrected in
several ways:
– Run the media correction utility through the VOP (see "To Rebuild the MIR
(VOP)" on page 3-14).
– The drive recovers the media information as it processes host commands, but
very slowly.
Tape Drive Features
The following features are available for the T10000C and T10000D tape drives.
Some of the feature descriptions refer to white papers which are located at:
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