IBM System Storage TS3500, Introduction And Planning Manual

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Ultrium diagnostic cartridge
This section gives information about the appearance and usage of the Ultrium
diagnostic cartridge.
The Ultrium diagnostic cartridge is a cartridge with known good media that is
reserved for diagnostic purposes only. One cartridge slot is reserved in the first
Ultrium frame for the Ultrium diagnostic cartridge. The slot is located at Column
1, Row 1. The volume serial (VOLSER) number for a diagnostic cartridge is
represented as
DG IxxLy
, where
xx
equals alphanumeric characters and
y
equals the
generation of the cartridge type. Table 53 shows the compatability between each
generation of diagnostic cartridge and LTO Ultrium tape drive. The characters of
the VOLSER are white on a black background. During service calls, your IBM
Service Representative will use the cartridge to ensure that the tape drives run
correctly and to specification.
Note: A new diagnostic cartridge is shipped with the LTO drive field install
feature if it is the first drive of that type in the frame.
Table 53. LTO Ultrium diagnostic cartridge and tape drive compatability
Cartridge
generation
(
y
)
LTO Ultrium tape drives
Ultrium 6 Ultrium 5 Ultrium 4 Ultrium 3 Ultrium 2 Ultrium 1
5 Yes Yes No No No No
4 No Yes Yes No No No
3 No No Yes Yes No No
2 No No No Yes Yes No
1 No No No No Yes Yes
If your library is installed with a second accessor, service bay A (the HA1 frame)
contains only gripper test slots for diagnostic cartridges. Service bay B contains
gripper test slots for diagnostic cartridges, and also contains unusable storage slots.
The storage slots in service bay B are not usable if the frame is configured as a
service bay. Never insert any type of cartridge into service bays. Each service bay
contains gripper test slots for three Ultrium diagnostic cartridges and three 3592
diagnostic cartridges.
Because internal diagnostics for the LTO Ultrium tape drive will not permit it to
write to a WORM cartridge, all diagnostic tests that are selected from the operator
panel and performed in maintenance mode will cause the drive to eject a WORM
cartridge and issue error code 7 on its single-character display. To run diagnostics,
use a non-WORM cartridge.
Chapter 4. Using Ultrium media
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