There is also third party hardware reader and software. http://www.mptapes.com/veritape/index.html This is not an endorsement.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 6:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Tape predictive failure data : What do you use to read the LTO CM ? Hello gents, I'm new to the backup operations business, so bear with me pls. I'm looking for a way to determine the health status for each of my 750 LTO4 cartridges (700 in vault and 50 in library) The TS3310 library is controlled directly (primary) by my TSM 7.1.1.300 (AIX) server, and has no partitioning nor secondary servers. I know that all LTO drives can each the LTO CM chip, and that the ITDT command < U > can be used for that purpose. So here's where I need your experience with the 3 scenarios I'm looking at : 1. Scenario 1 : query TSM for health information for all the LTO4 volumes - but PMR replied that this does not exist a. QUESTION : Shouldn't this type of media health management be part of any modern backup software ? 2. Scenario 2 : Disable 1 drive from TSM, use a tool to mount tapes into that drive, use ITDT to read off the data a. QUESTION : Does anyone have a sample command-line tool can I use to mount a given LTO4 cartridge from a TS3310 into a given drive ? 3. Scenario 3 : go around with an Android NFC-enabled device to read off the LTO CM (Mifare DESfire) a. QUESTION : Can anyone share its success story with this approach ? I'm also quite interested into how you guys go about this, as I am about to go into RFP for a replacement LTO7 library. Regards, Luc
