Requesting information about drives
You can request information about drives by using the QUERY DRIVE command.- Updating drives
You can change the attributes of a drive definition by issuing the UPDATE DRIVE command. - Drive encryption
Drive encryption protects tapes that contain critical or sensitive data (for example, tapes that contain sensitive financial information). Drive encryption is beneficial for tapes that are moved from the Tivoli Storage Manager server environment to an offsite location. - Validating data during read/write operations to tape
To validate data and identify data that is corrupted, you can use a feature called logical block protection. If you use logical block protection, Tivoli Storage Manager inserts a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value at the end of each logical block of data to be written to tape. - Cleaning drives
The server can control cleaning tape drives in SCSI libraries and offers partial support for cleaning tape drives in manual libraries. - Deleting drives
You can delete drive definitions by issuing the DELETE DRIVE command.