When is a cleaning tape needed?
Monday, June 20th, 2011As part of my magical Bacula website, I wanted to know when my tape drive required a cleaning tape. It appears that smartctl will reveal this information:
[dan@kraken:/usr/home/dan] $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/in/smartctl -d scsi -x /dev/nsa0
Password:
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
Device: DEC […]