Chapter 4 Running Your Library
Locking and Unlocking the I/E Stations
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• Retrieve tape drive sled logs. Tape drive sled logs can be retrieved
from any sled installed in the library. For more information, see
Retrieving Tape Drive Sled Logs
on page 336
.
• Clean tape drives. Tape drive can be cleaned manually at any time.
For more information, see
About Cleaning Tape Drives
on page 137.
• Upload/remove tape drive firmware for autoleveling. Available only
for FC tape drives connected to an FC I/O blade. For more
information, see
Autoleveling Tape Drive Firmware
on page 168.
• Reset tape drives. Resetting a tape drive power cycles the tape drive
while the tape drive remains in the drive sled in the library. For more
information, see
Drive Reset
on page 355.
Locking and Unlocking the I/E Stations
Each control module and expansion module has an I/E station door with
multiple open and close sensors. A secondary door located behind the
I/E station door acts as a redundant indicator as to whether the I/E
station is opened or closed. When you are finished accessing the I/E
station, make sure the station door is fully closed.
Administrative users can use this operation to lock or unlock the doors
for all I/E stations that are configured as I/E station slots. If all I/E
station slots are configured as storage, this operation unlocks the control
module I/E station only.
There are three 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
Note:
Some host applications use a command to lock and unlock I/E
station doors. This command usually cannot be overridden by
the library. Use the host application to lock or unlock I/E
station doors if this occurs. Using the library lock/unlock
operation may affect the host application. See your host
application documentation for information.
