Managing tape drives

You can query, update, and delete tape drives. You can also clean tape drives and configure tape drive encryption and data validation.

Updating drives
You can change the attributes of a drive definition to take a drive offline or reconfigure it.
Data validation during read/write operations to tape
To validate data and identify data that is corrupted, you can use a feature that is called logical block protection. If you use logical block protection, IBM Storage Protect inserts a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value at the end of each logical block of data while it is written to tape.
Cleaning tape drives
You can use the server to manage tape-drive cleaning. The server can control how tape drives in SCSI libraries are cleaned.
Tape drive replacement
If you replace a drive in a tape library that is defined to IBM Storage Protect, you must delete the drive and path definitions for the old drive and define the new drive and path.

Parent topic: Managing operations for a tape solution