Media Validation
Validate the integrity of tape cartridges using the media validation (MV) feature.
Media validation requires that you dedicate drives to a media validation pool. You can only assign T10000C/D or IBM LTO6 or higher drives to the media validation pool (HP LTO drives are not supported). There is no limit on the number of drives you can add to the pool, but media validation drives are invisible to host applications and can only be used for media validation. While a tape is being validated, the library spoofs the tape's original location to the host. If a host requests a tape currently being validated, the library will cancel the validation and return the tape to its original slot to allow the tape to then be mounted by the host command.