• O Line
The specified drive is not online. No archive operation can be performed until this
problem is corrected. You may need to insert the medium or push a load button. See
the drive manual.
• Unavailable
The drive is being used by someone else, it is broken or not installed.
• Released
IRIS is not currently attached to the drive. The drive is free to be used by IRIS or other
processes.
• Full
The medium is full, an EOT or disk full was encountered during a Record operation. To
continue recording, the medium must be unmounted, a new medium mounted and
Record must be invoked again.
• BOT (tape)
Beginning of tape, a new tape has been inserted into the drive and is ready to be
mounted. This status also appears after a Rewind is done.
• EOT (tape)
End of Tape, IRIS has encountered the end of tape. Usually IRIS rewinds the tape
automatically, so the message is replaced by Rewind.
Up to 3 status indicators can appear together in the Status field. For example, if a Record
process fills the tape, the tape is rewound and sits idle until the operator changes tapes or
issues another command, the Status field indicates the following:
Idle BOT Full
If the tape is being scanned to create an inventory, the status field displays the following:
Scanning
When a record process currently has nothing to do, the status displays:.
Idle
If new product files tagged for archive (in the Product Output menu) become available, they
are recorded automatically.
When the Mount command is completed and the tape is at the beginning awaiting
commands, the Status field displays:
Idle BOT
Archive ID
Identifies the unique name assigned to the tape or disk when it was initialized.
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