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US 2014/0112118 A1Published application
System and Method for Identifying Failing Drives or Media in Media Libary
AssigneeKip Cr P1 LP
InventorsWilliam H. Moody, II, Robert C. Sims, Brian J. Bianchi
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Abstract
Embodiments of methods and systems comprise identifying failing media and/or drives for a media library. Error data can be collected from media libraries. For each tape exhibiting an error rate of interest, a determination can be made whether the tape would still have been of interest had it not been loaded in certain drives. This information can be analyzed to identify failing drives or tapes.
Claims1
A method of identifying failing media library components, comprising:
- collecting data, wherein collecting data comprises querying one or more library components of the media library at intervals and receiving returned data, wherein querying one or more library components comprises:
- sending Log Sense (LS) commands to a drive of the media library over a network at intervals;
- sending one or more Inquiry commands to the drive or a media changer of the media library over the network;
- sending Read Element Status (RES) commands to the media changer over the network at intervals;
- storing the collected data in a repository, wherein storing the collected data in the repository comprises storing data returned in response to the LS commands, the Inquiry commands or the RES commands in the repository, wherein the data in the repository spans a plurality of intervals;
- identifying a potentially failing tape or drive based on the collected data.
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