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Appendix

Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics Version 2.9 User's Guide


Table A-1. Additional Hardware Information for Storage Diagnostics 

Parameter

Description

Total Moves

Total number of AutoLoader moves.

Drive Loads

Number of loads to the drive from magazines and mail slot.

Mailslot Exports

Number of times a cartridge was exported from the system.

Mailslot Imports

Number times a cartridge was imported into the system.

Magazine Moves

Number of moves between storage slots.

Magazine Loads

Number of times a cartridge was moved from a storage slot to the drive.

Servo Hard Error

The number of unrecoverable errors.

Drive Soft Error

Each field is a count of the number of times high-level recoverable error was reported for that component.

Rotation Recovery Action

Each field is a count of the number of times recovery actions were required in that axis to perform an operation.

System Moves

Total system moves would include every point to point movement that was made regardless of slot.

System Pick Retries

Total Pick-retries regardless of slot.

System Put Retries

Total Put-retries regardless of slot.

Element Total Puts

The Total Puts field indicates the total number of cartridge-puts to the element location.

Element Total Picks

The Total Picks field indicates the total number of cartridge-picks from the element location.

Element Total Put Retries

The Total Put Retries field indicates the total number of retry-puts to the element indicated by the element address.

Element Total Pick Retries

The Total Pick Retries field indicates the number of retry-pick Operations from the element address.

Firmware

Firmware version on the tape device.

Last Clean

Indicates the number of hours since the Last-clean was done.

Clean Required

Set to Yes if cleaning-required condition exists.

Replace Cleaning Tape

Yes if cleaning tape needs replacement.

Number of Drive Cleans

Drive cleaning cycle count.

Number of Tape Cleans

Specifies the number of cleaning sessions per cartridge.

Power On Hours (POH)

Amount of time a tape drive has been turned on.

Tape Motion Hours/Cylinder on Hours (COH)

This represents the amount of time the tape drive has been used for backups and restores.

Load Count

This counter indicates the number of times a tape cartridge was loaded. Some drives increment this value when a tape cartridge is inserted and some increment this value when a tape drive is unloaded.

Number of Cleans

Specifies the number of cleaning sessions per cartridge.

Time in COH when Incompatible media was last loaded.

Time stamp in COH

Time in POH when the Over temperature condition occurred – returns zeros

Time stamp in POH

Time in POH when the Power issue condition occurred

Time stamp in POH

Total Number of Cleaning

Total number of Cleanings that are done using a cleaning tape.

Time since last cleaning

Time stamp in hours.

Time in COH of last emergency eject

Time stamp in COH.

Media Type:

total time in COH

Total COH for specified media type.

Sense codes

(List of latest four Sense Codes)

Various codes and parameter are listed. For example, Sense Key, Additional Sense Code, and Additional Sense Code Qualifier.

Lifetime Meters of Tape Processed

Cumulative physical length of tape that has been written over its lifetime.

Time in MMH since Last Successful Cleaning

Media motion (head) hours since last successful cleaning operation.

Time in MMH since Second Last Successful Cleaning

Media motion (head) hours since second last, successful cleaning operation.

Time in MMH since Third Last Successful Cleaning

Media motion (head) hours since third last, successful cleaning operation.

Power On Hours when Force Reset and/or Emergency Eject occurred

Lifetime Power On Hours when the last operator initiated forced reset and/or emergency eject occurred.

MediaType

Type of media that is loaded at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status else 00h.

DensityCode

Density code of the medium loaded at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status else 00h.

MMHShort

Number of media motion hours at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status.

Repeat Bit

0 - indicates one occurrence of sense key and additional sense code information in the parameter entry.

1 - indicates multiple, consecutive occurrence of sense key and sense code information in the parameter entry.

Firmware Version

Firmware version at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status.

MMH Since Last Clean

Media Motion hours since Last Successful Cleaning at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status.

Opcode

Operation Code at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status.

Medium ID Number

If the media is present at the time the command terminated with Check Condition status, MediumID Number contains: 1, Barcode field value 2, Medium Serial Number 3,Vendor-specific value.

If media is not present MediumID Number contains 20h.


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