Quantum Scalar i6000, User Manual

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Chapter 13: Running Your Library
Locking/Unlocking the I/E Station
488 Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide
drives usually will be fully powered on and ready for use within 10
minutes. However, if a library is large with a high number of drives,
it can take more than an hour for the library to fully power on,
complete its discovery process, and become ready for use. During
the power-on process, the Robotics Enabled indicator flashes.
When the library is fully up and ready to receive commands, the
Robotics Enabled indicator turns solid green.
Locking/Unlocking the I/E Station
The Scalar i6000 I/E stations have multiple open and close sensors.
When you are finished accessing the I/E station, make sure the station
door is fully closed.
There are two reasons the I/E station door locks:
• The library imports or exports a cartridge from the I/E station door.
While the library is attempting to import or export a tape from a
given I/E station slot, only the associated I/E station door is locked in
the closed position. All other I/E station doors remain accessible. On
a Get command from an I/E station slot, the associated I/E station
door remains locked until the media has been successfully moved to
its destination. This allows the media to be returned to the I/E
station slot in the event of a Put error.
• A user has requested that the I/E station door be locked.
• The application software has locked the I/E station as part of the
normal tape movement process.
Administrative users can lock or unlock the I/E station doors using an
option from the Tools menu.
1 Make sure that you are viewing the physical library. From the View
menu, click the name of the physical library.