Re: Anyone want to take a stab at explaining "Work with Lifetime Statistics" in Service Tools ?

Bad spot on the tape appears to be a real problem....

Temp errors are those that the system can "get around"
while Perm "can not get around".. Auto error recovery
on tape can produce some pretty interesting stats...

Dasd can/does suffer the same fate...




Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Anyway, here is a sampling of the stats:
>
>
>     > 000099           56     522380       0        0            7

> 000099 is the tape in question in this case. I know that the > means "Media
> may exceed replacement criteria". What I am most interested in is
> understanding the Temporary and Perm Errors. Obviously the Write errors
> under Temporary Errors is very high. Does this indicate a serious problem
> with the tape surface ? If if does, from my recording days and I can
> understand it bouncing back and forth trying to find a good spot, etc. and
> this REALLY adding to the save time.
>