Performing Drive Operations

This procedure handles drive operations such as:

  • Marking a drive as replaced

  • Marking a drive as cleaned

  • Marking a drive as fixed

  • Download the mark_drive.xml file and save it on the computer where the command is run.

  • Open the XML file.

  • Change the XML parameters.

Attribute

Description

libraryName

The name of the tape library.

driveName

The name of the drive on which you want to run the operation

markDrive

The drive operation that you want to perform. Refer to the table for the values.

Drive Operation

Value

To mark a drive as replaced

1

To mark a drive as cleaned

2

To mark a drive as fixed

3

Example: Use this example XML file to mark a drive with name "Drive1" and library name "Library1" as fixed.

  1. Run the following command from the <software installation directory>\Base folder.

    qoperation execute -af downloaded location\mark_drive.xml

    Click here to see sample output.

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