1. Review Which Drives are Best for Media Validation?
2. In the left navigation, expand Tape System Hardware, then select Drives Overview.
3. In the table toolbar, click Filter Data .

4. Add criteria based on the requirements and recommendations for valid drives.

   Below is a sample filter you might use to identify T10000 drives within an SL85000.

   
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5. Add potential drives to the Drives - Overview graphs to get a visual representation of the drive characteristics and confirm your selections.

   See Add Library Resources to Graphs.

Which Drives are Best for Media Validation?

The drives must meet the following minimum requirements:

• T10000C or D drives with firmware version ending in 5.40 or higher (this indicates the firmware supports TTI 5.4+).
  • T10000D drives must have Level 3 Media Validation and Level 3 RQI Margin Report enabled within VOP to provide Quality Index values. See ISSUE: T10000D Drives Are Not Showing Quality Index After Media Validation.
• IBM LTO 6+ drives (for SL150), IBM LTO 6+ drives in ADI mode (for SL8500)
• Drive Health Indicator is Use.
• Drive Suspicion Level is 0.

Select high-quality drives, with recent activity and few or no errors. Drives with the following characteristics may be good candidates for the validation pools:

• Activity in the last 30 days. See the Drive Dismounts (30 Days) attribute.
• No drive errors. See the Drive Errors (30 Days) attribute.
• No excessive drive cleans. See the Cleans (30 Days) attribute.
• No excessive alerts or SNMP traps. If there are alerts and traps, you may want to investigate to determine whether they indicate a potential problem with the drive. See the Drive SNMP Trap Count (30 Days) and Alert Count (30 Days) attributes.
• Relatively fast. See the Mount R/W MB/sec (30 Days) attribute.