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.
Unloading Tape Drives
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The Unload Drive operation allows you to unload a cartridge from a tape
drive to a storage slot. 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 unload tape drives. Using the library to unload tape drives
may necessitate performing an inventory with the host application. See
your host application documentation for more information.
Details about unloading tape drives include:
• Only drives with media loaded appear on the screen.
• You can select only partitions to which you have been given access.
• If the affected partition is online, it will be taken offline before the
unload operation is performed, and brought back online after it is
complete.
You need to provide the following information in the
Unload Drive
screens to unload tape cartridges from tape drives:
•
Partition —
The partition containing the tape drive that you want to
unload. The screens include information about the partition mode
(online or offline).
•
Tape drive —
The tape drive that contains the cartridge that you want
to unload.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the web client, select
Operations > Drive > Unload
.
• From the operator panel, select
Operations > Unload Drive
.
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.
Note:
You can sort the list of tape drives by clicking on columns with
bold headings. For example, selecting the
Location
column
heading sorts the list by location coordinates.