Taking A Tape Drive Offline - Qualstar XLS Series Technical & Service Manual

3. From the Media and Tape Drives section of the Physical Library portlet, select
Tape Drives. The View/Manage Tape Drive page opens, as shown in
Figure
Figure 8-2 View/Manage Tape Drives page
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Taking a Tape Drive Offline

When you take a tape drive offline, the physical location becomes inaccessible to the
logical library. For this reason:
• Cartridges cannot be moved to an offlined tape drive by the software application
that controls the logical library.
• Cartridges cannot be moved to an offlined tape drive by logical library commands
that have the tape drive as their destination.
Important:
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Taking a tape drive offline prevents the logical library
from moving cartridges to the tape drive. This action
does not affect the tape drive's ability to communicate
with the software application or to read and write data.
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