Qualstar RLS-4470, Technical & Service Manual

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3-10 The Operator Interface
501510 Rev. S
NOTICE
The values displayed are always the actual values. If a displayed value is
changed in the display, it is immediately changed within the system. If it is
necessary to change back to an original value, the displayed value must be
changed back to the original value.
3.5.3 Location Designators
A Location Designator contains six characters used to describe any physical location.
A “ p ” in the first character signifies a physical location and then the five remaining
characters are defined below. When a character is not required to define a par-
ticular location, the character is replaced with a decimal point or dot.
Space Primary Location Secondary
Location
a – d,p F,H,IA…IZ,MA…MZ,T
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,1-5
Table 3-2 The physical Location Field
Character Definition
Space
This character is always a lower-
case “ p ” when describing the
physical space.
Characters
a-d
indicates logical libraries
a-d element address space.
Primary
Location
F: Fixed Slots (RLS-4124 and 4221 only)
H: Handler
MA.
–MZ: Magazine A through Magazine Z (model dependent)
IA
–IZ: VIOP Magazine A through VIOP Magazine Z (model dependent)
T: Tape Drive
Secondar
y Location
This digit is used to locate a particular location within a primary group (all are model
dependent): Fixed Slots (1-4), Magazine Slot (1-5), Tape Drive (1-4)
Table 3-3
physical
Character Definitions
Example Definition
pH....
The Handler
pID1..
The first VIOP storage location: Magazine D, Slot 1 (must always be slot 1)
pID5..
The last VIOP storage location: Magazine D, Slot 5 (must be in same magazine as first
slot)
pMB3..
A magazine storage location: Magazine B, Slot 3
pT1...
The leftmost Tape Drive