3.3.3 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 Reserved
Face
Type/Story
Digit
Digit
p
•
•
,1-6
A,B,F,H,I,P or T
•
,0-9
•
,0-9
Table 3-1 The
physical
Location Field
Character Definition
Space
This character is always a lower-case “
p
” when describing the
physical
space.
Face
This character is only needed to describe which face the desired magazine is located on.
A decimal point appears when this character is not needed.
Type/
Story
When describing a magazine location, the story (
A
, or
B
) is defined here. Note that stories are
always uppercase. Besides magazine location, there are four other types of locations defined
by this character,
F
for Fixed,
H
for Handler,
I
for I/O port, P for Private and
T
for Tape Drive.
Slot
These two digits are used to describe which tape drive or which magazine slot is selected.
Table 3-2
physical
Character Definitions
Example Definition
p..H..
The Handler
p..I..
The I/O port
p.1A01
The first magazine storage location: Face 1, Story A, Slot 01
p.1A10
The last storage location in the first magazine: Face 1, Story A, Slot 10
p..T1.
The topmost tape drive.
p.1F..
The first Fixed location on a carousel.
p.....
An unassigned location
Table 3-3
Location Designator Examples
By changing the Space character from a “p” to an “a”, you can view the SCSI element
address of the physical location described in the
physical
space. More on this subject
in the next chapter. Element addresses are in the range of 0 to 65535.
3.3.4 Editing Values
To change a displayed value, point to its name using the (UP) and (DOWN) keys,
then press ENTER. Not all values are editable. If the cursor does not appear over the
value when the ENTER key is pressed, then the value cannot be changed. If the cur-
sor appears over the first character only, the value is either numeric, alphanumeric,
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