Resume Validations on T10000 T2 Media

For T10000 T2 media, you can resume Complete Verify and Complete Verify Plus validations that have been interrupted or canceled.

You can either restart at the beginning or tape (BOT) or resume where the validation left off. You cannot resume validations for LTO or T1 media.

1. Manually start a validation, selecting the T10000 T2 media that you want to resume and selecting the Complete Verify or Complete Verify Plus validation type.

   See Submit Manual Media Validation Requests for details on how to start the validation.

2. After selecting the validation type, select one of the following options:
   • Perform validations from beginning of tape – Starts the validation at the beginning of tape (BOT). Depending on the read/write operations that have occurred on the media since the most recent validation was interrupted, the validation may no longer be valid, and you may want to select this option.
   • Continue validations from last known validated data point – Resumes the validation where the previou one left off, if the drive can determine this from the media RFID chip. If the drive cannot determine where the previous validation left off, it will start from the beginning of tape.

When Can I Resume a Validation?

You can only resume interrupted validations if certain conditions are true.

All of the following conditions must be true to resume a validation:

• You have selected T10000T2 media for validation (T10000T1 and LTO media validations always start at the beginning of tape).
• The validation test type is Complete Verify or Complete Verify Plus (other test types always start at the beginning of tape).
• The most recent validation for the media was not completed (previously completed validations always re-validated from the beginning of tape).