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Operation
Drive 3 Bus ID
(MSL5052/MSL5060
only)
Lets you set the SCSI addresses of drive 3. The
designators Drive 3 (lower, inner tape drive) through
Drive
n
refer to the fourth through
n
th drives, counting
from right to left starting with the master unit in the
scaled Library system.
Library SCSI Bus ID
Lets you set the SCSI addresses for the library robotics.
The default is 0.
Library SCSI Bus
Parity
Lets you enable or disable the library robotics SCSI bus
parity checking. The default is Library SCSI Bus Parity
Enabled.
Mail Slot Access
“Prevent Allow” Command Inhibits or “Prevent Allow”
Command Ignored (used for some backup
applications). “Prevent Allow” Command Inhibits is the
default.
SCSI Mode
Defines the loader as SCSI-2 or SCSI-3. The default is
SCSI-3.
Unit Attention
Reporting
Lets you select reporting of All or only One stacked-unit
attention conditions. If set to All, the unit reports all unit
attention conditions in sequence; if set to One, the unit
reports only the highest priority condition. The default is
Report All.
Init Element Status
Lets you specify the library’s response to the SCSI
INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS command. The
possible settings are No Inventory, Force Inventory, and
Force Label Scan. The default is Force Inventory.
Test Unit Ready
Reporting
Lets you specify the response to a TEST UNIT READY
command if the library is in Sequential Mode. The
possible settings are Standard or Custom. The default is
Custom.
Device Capability Page
Length
Lets you choose between two lengths of the mode
sense/select device capabilities page (SCSI page 1Fh),
which are short (14 bytes) and long (18 bytes), to
accommodate different SCSI device implementations of
this page. The default is Short (14 bytes).
Transport Element
Base Address
Lets you set the base address for the robotics
mechanism. The default is 0x0.
Table 4–3: View SCSI Options (Continued)
Option
Description