User`s manual

CBI-1010
Tape Monitor Utility
The Tape Monitor UtilityTM (TMU) is an application software developed by
CMD Teclmology and work exclusively with CMD SCSI host adapters as an
optional feature for VAX/VMS systems.
This Tape Monitor
UtilityTM runs under VMS and displays the tape drive ven-
dor identification, drive firmware revision, the remaining tape capacity, per-
centage of rewrites during writes or percentage of ECC retrys during reads,
and current tape operations such as read, write, write file mark, space, re-
wind, etc. You can install multiple
CBI-IOIOs and tape drives in one site and
observe all tape activity from any VAX terminal locally or across the network
without any additional add-in hardware. You also can open a file to log all
the information
during unattended backup.
To install the Tape Monitor
Utility, use On-Board Utility (Chapter 4,
subsection
1/ Additional Utilities") to enable TMU since the factory setting for
TMU OFF. Then follow the instructions given in the accompanying CMD Tape
Monitor
Utility User's Manual part number MAN-OOOTMU-OOl.
SynclAsync Mode
The CBI-IOIO comes standard in synchronous mode. Most SCSI devices
support synchronous mode. However, you can change the CBI-IOIO to
asynchronous
mode using the On-Board Utility in Chapter 4.
In Sync mode, CBI-IOIO will automatically negotiate with each SCSI
device connected to find out whether the Sync mode is supported by the
device.
In Async mode, CBI-IOIO will communicate with the SCSI device
asynchronously even
if the SCSI device supports Sync mode. Most of the
Sync
SCSI devices also support Async mode.
2-4 Features and Specifications