Cartridge Exporting - Sun Microsystems storagetek sl500 Reference Manual

Partitioning—Feature
The customer has the CAP in module 1 configured as a split CAP. The top slot
belongs to Partition 1 and the remaining slots belong to Partition 2. Partition 2
selects the CAP in the base module, presses the CAP button and opens the CAP to
import a cartridge. The operator places the cartridge into the top slot and closes the
CAP door.
In this case, Partition 2 does not own the top slot; therefore, the CAP door will
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re-open and the cartridge must be removed by the operator and placed in the
proper CAP slot.
The customer selects the correct CAP for an import operation, but the CAP does
not open.
One possibility is that there are no empty cartridge slots for the operation—the
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cartridge partition is full.
A customer tries to select a CAP, but its status is listed as "inaccessible" (or CAP
open, or a unit check is posted, depending on host software)
The CAP requested is currently selected by another partition which can also
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access the CAP. That host's CAP operation has not been completed. This
exemplifies the need for cooperation and communication among hosts using a
partitioned library.

Cartridge Exporting

The customer has four cartridge slots within a base module as Partition 1; one CAP
slot (the top one again) is a split CAP with only the top CAP slot configured.
Partition 1 selects the top CAP, then follows the procedure to export all four
cartridges.
In this situation, the top CAP will open each time a cartridge is placed in the top
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slot. The CAP must be opened/closed four times to complete the command.
A customer tries to select a CAP, but its status is listed as "inaccessible."
The CAP requested is currently selected by another partition which can also
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access that CAP.
Another partition has exported a cartridge to one of the three bottom slots in the
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CAP, but the CAP door has not been opened yet to retrieve the cartridge.
Remember:
A CAP will not open to expose a cartridge for a partition that is not assigned
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to the CAP button.
A CAP operation must be completed in order to release the CAP to other
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partitions.
Partitioning—Removing the Feature
If the customers for your library decide that they wish to remove the partitioning
feature, they simply remove all partitions and it will revert to a non-partitioned
library configuration.
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