I have to agree with Donna. Not only is the SYSDIAG/SCSIDDS solution not
elegant it is downright dangerous. I would only use it as a last resort to
reset a tape drive to avoid a reboot. I would not use it to check the status
of the drive.

Several enhancements would be nice.
o DEVCTRL or similar utility to report status of a drive.
o A utility to report the tape logs such as access counters, error counts,
etc.
o Turbostore should report the tape stats after each store. It would be real
nice to know what kind of compression ratio you are getting and how much of
the tape capacity is being used, not to mention the error counts and number
of passes.

Doug.

Doug Werth                                     Beechglen Development Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Garverick <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: DDS-3 Configuration


>Cheryl Thompson wrote:
>
>> There is a way to see if hardware compression is enabled by using the
>> support license installation program.  The command is SUPLICEN (you must
>> be logged on as Manager.Sys.  You will also need to call HP and get
>> either a temporary two day password or they will fax you a letter to
>> fill out and you can get a two year license.  It's  probably easier to
>> use devctrl and set it to either enable or disable.
>
>sysdiag's report is not my idea of elegant (ok, so call me a whiner :-).
it would
>much nicer (imo) if something simple -- like devctrl -- could report a
particular tape
>drive's status....              - d
>
>--
>Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
>925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]
>
>>>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<