How do I look at soft error rates?

 

IMPORTANT:  Soft errors may indicate worn media or dirty tape heads.

Follow these steps to view the soft errors recorded by a drive.

 

IMPORTANT:  These instructions are for DAT drives.

1.    Select the device you want to analyze from the Device Listing screen.

2.    On the resulting Status screen, click the Tests Tab.

3.    Select Log Sense under the Info Commands option.

4.    Select Drive Counters Log Page from Available Log Pages.

5.    In the Page Contents pane, examine the Offset, Parameters, Current Value, and Threshold defaults for the error rates you are interested in.

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Figure 73:  Log Sense dialog displaying write error data