ADIC Scalar Reference Manual page 136

Table 5-32 Physical Library Properties and Buttons
Property/Button Icon
Name
State
Product ID
Vendor ID
Command queue
execution
Remove
Add new Partition
Freeze
Activate
Help
If the physical library is removed, all partitions, media rules, and
CAUTION:
offline cartridges are lost. Library delete confirmation is required.
The Freeze command queue execution feature currently is implemented for the
NOTE:
Scalar 10K DA libraries only.
Media Rules
The physical library cannot always correctly identify the cartridge media type by recognizing its
barcode label (especially for the old models of barcode readers). The media domain is always
recognized correctly, the media type is not. In such cases the un-recognized volser receives the
media type as default to the slot where it has been found during Inventory.
However, this may lead to incorrect assignment of media type to cartridge, and that can even lead
to a hardware crash (for example, if the SDLT cartridge has been mis-identified as DLT III and
mounted to the Quantum DLT 4000 drive).
To improve the situation, a Media rules feature has been provided so the Scalar DLC administrator
can assign a correct media type to the range of volsers. The typical rule is, "if the cartridge is in the
specified volser range and has the specified media domain, check whether it has the specified
media type." The volser ranges specified in different rules cannot overlap by media domain (that
means, two rules cannot have both same media domain and overlapped volser ranges). See
Figure 5-29 on page 5-45.
Also refer to Media Types on page A-9
5-44
Operation
Supplied Tape device name.
Supplied Physical library state. Refer to
Supplied Library product ID.
Supplied Library vendor ID.
Supplied Activated means commands should be executed when
they arrive to the physical library.
Frozen means commands should be executed only
after the library will be activated again.
Click Remove the physical library.
Click Add new partition. Refer to
56.
Click Freeze command queue execution.
Click Activate command queue execution (after freeze).
Click Open online help for the current pane.
and Drive Types on page
Scalar DLC
Description
Table 5-3 on page
Create Partition on page 5-
A-11.
6-00658-02
5-3.