Sun StorageTek 9840D Tape Drive
 
Sun StorageTek 9840 Tape Drive
 
Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive
 
Sun StorageTek 9840B Tape Drive
 
Sun StorageTek 9940 Tape Drive
 

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Goal

Identifying and Retiring Old Data Cartridges.

When tape cartridges exceed their design life, the media can wear thin, and mechanical parts, like the cartridge’s gate, can wear out.  When cartridges reach the end of their engineered life, customers should consider migrating the data on them to new cartridges and retiring the old cartridges.  This avoids the slight risk of either mechanical cartridge components failing or the data being unreadable.

Fix

Refer to the attached document for complete information on Identifying and Retiring Old Cartridges
Summary:

There are multiple ways to identify cartridges that are near or at their engineering life.  The best include:
- ACSLS 7.3 can display cartridge end-of-life and warranty life percentages that are reported by modern drives in modern libraries.
- On MVS, 3590/3592 MIM messages report expired tapes.
- VSM reports old and failed media.
 
Besides these methods, both HSC and ACSLS can display the number of times a cartridge has been accessed, generally for mounts.  This information is available for all libraries and from all HSC or ACSLS releases.


@ Cartridge End-of-Life Percentages from ACSLS, VSM Cartridge Information Reporting, Access Counts from ACSLS and HSC, 3590/3592 Media Information Messages – in MVS Sites, HSC and ACSLS Cartridge Mount Count Details, Cartridge Warranty and End-of-life Thresholds, 9840, 9940, T10000

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