A Slot Mapping And Cartridge Locations; Cartridge Slot Addressing; Reserved Slots; Drive, Mailslot, Power Supply, And Robot Addressing - StorageTek SL150 Manual

Modular tape library
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Slot Mapping and Cartridge Locations
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Cartridge Slot Addressing

Drive, Mailslot, Power Supply, and Robot Addressing

SCSI Element Addressing
Example Library Configurations and Slot Maps
Cartridge Slot Addressing
Library slots are identified by library-module, side, row, column, where:
library-module is the module that contains the slot. Modules are numbered by
starting from the base module (1) and counting down.
side identifies the magazine within the module either Left or Right.
row is the row of the slot with in the magazine, numbered starting from the top of
magazine(1) and counting down.
column is the column of the slot within the magazine, numbered starting from the
handle side of the magazine, at the front of the library, and counting to the back.

Reserved Slots

The library can have a maximum of three reserved slots. Only the following slot
addresses can be used as reserved slots (see
Reserved System Slots"
address.
1, Left, 1, 1
1, Left, 2, 1
1, Left, 3, 1
Drive, Mailslot, Power Supply, and Robot Addressing
Component locations are identified using the following addressing schemes:
Component
Drives
Mailslot
Expanded Mailslot
on page 6-5). Reserved slots do not have a SCSI element
SCSI Element Address
Yes
Yes
Yes
"Determine the Required Number of
Physical addressing
module,top|bottom
slot number
module,side,row,column
Slot Mapping and Cartridge Locations A-1
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