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RDX 8000 User Guide
5.10 Managing the unit – The MANAGE tab
Access to the Manage functions is granted to Administrator and Service level account logins.
Following are the levels of the “MANAGE” tab.
5.10.1 Managing the library
The “MANAGE/Library” function is available when the operation mode of the RDX 8000 unit is set to “Tape Library” or
“Disk Library”.
In “Tape Library” mode, this feature allows the user to “manually move” tape formatted RDX cartridges from any storage
slot to the virtual tape drive(s). The virtual tape drive allows the cartridge to be visible to the host as an emulated LTO
tape within an emulated LTO tape drive and for the host to write or read data from the cartridge with applications
designed to support LTO tape drives. The “MANAGE/Library” function will only allow movement of properly formatted
(tape format) cartridges into the virtual drive. Cartridge format is indicated by the icon in the image for each storage slot
location. Disk formatted cartridges will appear with the exception mark (red exclamation mark) to indicate an abnormal
condition.
In “Disk Library” mode, this feature allows the user to “manually move” RDX cartridges from any storage slot to the
identified drive. The drive allows the cartridge to be visible to the host as a standard RDX drive and for the host to write
or read data from the cartridge.
To move the cartridge the user highlights the cartridge on the storage slot side (left side of the page) by clicking on it,
then selects the target drive on the right by clicking on it, and then clicking on right pointing arrow (load drive) operator
in the center of the page to move the cartridge to the drive. The cartridge will now become visible to the software
application as being inserted into the drive.
The cartridge may be unloaded from the virtual drive by selecting the appropriate drive and then clicking on the left
pointing arrow (unload drive) operator in the center. Also, selecting any other cartridge from the storage slot side and
choosing the load button will result in the automatic unload of the cartridge in the drive. The RDX 8000 will only store
cartridges back into their original storage slot location (it is not possible to ‘move” cartridges to a different storage slot).
