SCSD tape drive service aid

This Service Aid provides a means to obtain the status or maintenance information from a SCSD tape drive. Only some models of SCSI tape drive are supported.

The Service Aid provides the following options:

• Display time since a tape drive was last cleaned.

  The time since the drive was last cleaned is displayed onto the screen. In addition, a message whether the drive is recommended to be cleaned is also displayed.

• Copy a tape drive's trace table.
• The trace table of the tape drive is written to diskettes.

  The required diskettes must be formatted for DOS. Writing the trace table may require several diskettes. The actual number of required diskettes is determined by the Service Aid based on the size of the trace table. The names of the data files are of the following format:

  TRACE[X].DAT

  where X is the sequential diskette number. The complete trace table consists of the sequential concatenation of all the diskette data files.

• Display or copy a tape drive's log sense information.

  The Service Aid provides options to display the log sense information onto the screen, to copy it to a DOS formatted diskette or to copy it to a file. The file name LOGSENSE.DAT is used when the log sense data is written on the diskette. The Service Aid prompts for a file name when the log sense data is chosen to be copied to a file.