Storage Columns; Storage Columns; Robot Assembly Designs - IBM TS3310 Maintenance Information

Storage Columns

Figure 2-4. Storage columns
Storage columns within the library store cartridges while they are not being
utilized by a drive. The library contains six storage columns. One of those six
columns is the I/O Station.

Robot Assembly Designs

The Picker (robotic arm) has fingers that enable it to grab tape cartridges and move
them to and from the I/O Station, storage slots, and drives. A Bar Code Scanner
located inside the Picker, reads each cartridge bar code label and the fiducial labels
that identify the types of cartridge magazines and tape drives installed in the
library.
The Robot Assembly has two designs, referred to as Y-Axis/Picker Assembly and
M2 Robot Assembly. The differences are explained in this section.
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