Prepare The Storage Partition Or The Cleaning Partition - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges
 Make sure that the Maintenance TeraPack magazine does not contain
 Make sure that you import only cleaning cartridges that are compatible
 The cleaning cartridges in a cleaning partition can only be used to clean
 The cleaning cartridges in the cleaning partition are inaccessible to the
 If your storage management software supports automated drive
Additional Requirements and Restrictions
Overview on page 231 for additional information about additional
requirements and restrictions when importing magazines and cartridges.

Prepare the Storage Partition or the Cleaning Partition

Before importing magazines into a storage partition or a cleaning partition,
make sure that the partition has sufficient empty slots or chambers
available to accommodate the cartridges or magazines you plan to import.
 If you plan to import cartridges into the storage partition's entry/exit
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any data cartridges. The library will not import a Maintenance
TeraPack magazine that contains cartridges that are not identified with
"CLN" at the beginning of the barcode sequence on their labels.
with the drives in the storage partition associated with the cleaning
partition. To ensure that the correct type of cleaning cartridges are
stored in a cleaning partition, the library prevents you from importing
the wrong cartridge type.
drives in a storage partition that is configured to use that cleaning
partition. Associating a cleaning partition with a storage partition
automatically enables the Auto Drive Clean feature for the drives in
that partition (see Allocate Chambers and Drives on page 198).
application software running on the host. Make sure you disable any
software‐based drive cleaning to prevent repeated requests to import a
cleaning cartridge.
cleaning and you plan to use this method to clean the drives instead of
the library's Auto Drive Clean feature, refer to your software
documentation for instructions. You must import the properly labeled
cleaning cartridges into the storage partition using a TeraPack
magazine (not a Maintenance TeraPack magazine).
pool, and then use your storage management software to move the
cartridges to the storage pool, check the Inventory screen for the
partition to make sure that the storage pool has an empty slot available
to accommodate each imported cartridge (see Viewing and
Downloading the Cartridge Inventory on page 266). If there are
insufficient empty slots available in the storage pool, do one of the
following to prepare the storage pool to receive the imported
cartridges:
 If the partition's storage pool has empty chambers, import one or
more TeraPack magazines with empty slots into the storage pool
(see Import the Magazines on page 236).
Prepare the Storage Partition or the Cleaning Partition
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