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It is important to consider how drives are assigned to partitions when cabling tape drives and hosts to an
I/O blade. If you want a host to be able to communicate with a tape drive that is assigned to a particular
partition, both the drive and the host that has access to the partition should communicate through the same
I/O blade.
Table 9 provides an example of a 41U library with I/O blade-attached tape drives. The information next to
the image shows each tape drive and the I/O blade and port to which each tape drive is connected.
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