Changing The Drive Configuration; Configuration: Drive Page (Parallel Scsi) - HP StorageWorks MSL2024 User's And Service Manual

• Reboot the device from the RMI Support: Reboot screen.
• Move the lowest-numbered cartridge to the drive before starting the backup application. If
the mailslot is enabled, the lowest cartridge location will be in the mailslot.
• When Loop mode is on, the original first cartridge in the sequence is reloaded after the device
has cycled through all available cartridges. If Loop mode is off and the last cartridge has been
unloaded, the device stops loading cartridges until you load another manually.
CAUTION:
Use caution when choosing Loop mode because it makes it possible to overwrite data on
previously written cartridges.
When the device is partitioned into logical libraries, each logical library operates as an independent
library. Thus, the device only loads tapes from the slots associated with one logical library into
the tape drive associated with that logical library; it will not load tapes from slots associated with
another logical library. Only the lowest-numbered tape drive in a multi-drive logical library will
be used.
Automatic mode: In Automatic mode, the device switches from Sequential mode into Random
mode when it receives certain SCSI commands. Automatic mode is the default setting.
• Reserved Slots — The number of slots in the logical library that are not available to the backup
software. You can store cleaning tapes in reserved slots, or leave reserved slots empty. The slots
are reserved from the highest slot number down. The default is to make the maximum number of
slots active. Each logical library must have at least two active slots.

Changing the drive configuration

This page shows the current configuration of all drives and allows modification to the configuration.
You can also select Power on through this page. (See
Configuration: Drive page (Fibre
Figure 58 Configuration: Drive page (parallel SCSI)
.
For each parallel SCSI drive, you may change the
• SCSI ID — the SCSI address for a parallel SCSI tape drive.
• Power On — power the tape drive on or off.
HP StorageWorks MSL2024, MSL4048, MSL8048, and MSL8096 Tape Libraries User and service
Configuration: Drive page (parallel
Channel), or Configuration: Drive page
SCSI),
(SAS)).
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