Enabling Hli Host Managed Drive Cleaning; Enabling/Disabling The Scsi Fastload Feature; Adding Or Modifying The Drive Tray Serial Numbers - Oracle StorageTek SL3000 Manual

Enabling HLI Host Managed Drive Cleaning

Set the cleaning cartridge threshold (see
4.
Count Warning Thresholds"
Enabling HLI Host Managed Drive Cleaning
Tape drives require periodic cleaning with cleaning cartridges to prevent read/write
errors. Drive cleaning can be managed by either HLI hosts or the library (see
Drive Auto Cleaning"
In SLC, select Tools > Configuration.
1.
Deselect Enable Auto Clean, and then click Apply.
2.
Enable drive cleaning on the host (see the host software documentation).
3.
Import cleaning cartridges using the host software. DO NOT use the SLC
4.
import/export feature.

Enabling/Disabling the SCSI FastLoad Feature

Enabling SCSI FastLoad can improve the speed of mount and dismount operations for
an FC-SCSI library or partition.
The SCSI FastLoad feature requires minimum SL3000 firmware FRS_2.33 and SLC
4.47.
You can enable or disable SCSI FastLoad separately for each FC-SCSI partition.
Select Tools > Configuration.
1.
For each partition, set the Enable FastLoad Feature option:
2.
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Click Apply, and then click OK.
3.
How SCSI FastLoad Improves Speed
After a robot mounts a cartridge to a drive, the robot is immediately available for the
next request and does not wait until the drive reports that the cartridge was loaded.
The library controller waits to return the mount request response until it detects that
the tape drive has successfully loaded the cartridge.

Adding or Modifying the Drive Tray Serial Numbers

Select Tools > Configuration.
1.
Click the Drive Tray S/N tab.
2.
9-2 StorageTek SL3000 Library Guide
on page 9-1).
If the library is partitioned, you can enable or disable library
Note:
auto clean for each partition.
Note: If you enable SCSI FastLoad and a cartridge fails to mount the
drive, the FC-SCSI host must move the cartridge from the drive back
to the source location.
Select to turn SCSI FastLoad on.
Unselect to turn SCSI FastLoad off (default).
"Defining Cleaning Cartridge Usage
on page 11-4).
"Enabling