Identify Media Eligible for Validation

Media must have a minimum history to be used for policy-driven validation.

Note:

If you have enabled drive calibration, STA will exclude any media in the calibration media logical group from all validation policies.

A minimum history means that the media must have values for the following:

• Exchange Recording Technique
• Media Suspicion Level
• MB Written

If you want STA to validate media that does not have this history, you should manually initiate a Basic Verify. See Submit Manual Media Validation Requests.

Not All Media May Be Validated by a Policy

With the addition of LTO media validation starting with STA 2.4.0, it is now possible to define a policy using a test type that does not apply to all the media identified by the policy. For example, you may create a policy that uses a logical group which contains both LTO and T10000 media, and select Complete Verify Plus as the test type. In this case, the LTO media would not be tested by the policy.