Bringing A Tape Drive Online - Qualstar XLS Series Technical & Service Manual

8.8 Bringing a Tape Drive Online

2. Access the View/Manage Tape Drives page, as described in
8-2.
3. In the Status–Calibrate column of the tape drives table, select Uncalibrated
Important:
The Calibrate Tape Drive page opens, as shown in
Figure 8-13 Calibrate Tape Drive page (physical library version shown)
4. Press Yes to calibrate the tape drive.
5. Confirm that Calibrated is now reported in the Status–Calibrated column of the
tape drives table.
Important:
8.8 Bringing a Tape Drive Online
When you bring a tape drive online, the physical location becomes accessible to the logical
library. A tape drive must be online before you can use the software application or logical
library commands to move cartridges to it. Bringing a tape drive online does not affect the
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As an alternative, you can select Calibrate Tape
Drive from the list of options below the table. However,
if you select Calibrate Tape Drive, you must enter the
address of the tape drive.
You may need to press Refresh to update the contents
of the table.
Section 8.1 on page
Figure 8-13.
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