Chapter 4 Running Your Library
Performing Media Operations
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For step-by-step procedures, see the library’s online Help. To access the
online Help system, click the
Help
icon at the top right of the web client or
operator panel user interface.
Loading Tape Drives
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The Load Drive operation enables you to load a cartridge from a storage
slot into a tape drive. The storage slot and tape drive must be assigned to
the same partition.
This topic focuses on using the library user interface, not the host
application, to load tape drives. Using the library to load tape drives may
necessitate performing an inventory with the host application. See your
host application documentation for more information.
Details on loading tape drives include:
• If the partition is online, it will be taken offline before the load
operation is performed and brought back online after the operation is
complete. You will be asked to confirm that you want to take the
partition offline.
• You can select only partitions to which you have been given access.
• Default tape drive locations are highlighted if the barcode field is
empty or the field is cleared.
You need to provide the following information in the
Load Drive
screens
to load tape cartridges into tape drives:
•
Partition
— The partition containing the cartridge you want to load
into a tape drive. The screens include information about the partition
mode (online or offline).
•
Media
— The tape cartridges that you want to move.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the web client, select
Operations > Drive > Load
.
• From the operator panel, select
Operations > Load Drive
.
Note:
You can filter the list of media by entering all or part of a
barcode in the
Search
text box. Use an asterisk (*) to search
with wildcards. You can also sort the list by clicking on
columns with bold headings. For example, selecting the
Location
column heading sorts the list by location coordinates.
