Unloading Tape Drives - Tandberg Data Storage Library T128 User Manual

You need to provide the following information in the Load Drive screens to load tape cartridges into tape
drives:
• Partition — the partition containing the cartridge you want to load into a tape drive. The screens
include information about the partition mode (online or offline).
• Media — the tape cartridges that you want to move
You can filter the list of media by entering all or part of a barcode in the Search
Note
text box. Use an asterisk (*) to search with wildcards. You can also sort the list
by clicking on columns with bold headings. For example, selecting the
Location column heading sorts the list by location coordinates.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the web client, select Operations > Drives > Load.
• From the operator panel, select Operations > Load Drive.
For step-by-step procedures, see the library's online Help. To access the online Help system, click the Help
icon at the top right of the web client or operator panel user interface.

Unloading Tape Drives

The Unload Drive operation allows you to unload a cartridge from a tape drive to a storage slot. The storage
slot and tape drive must be assigned to the same partition.
This topic focuses on using the library user interface, not the host application, to unload tape drives. Using
the library to unload tape drives may necessitate performing an inventory with the host application. See your
host application documentation for more information.
Details about unloading tape drives include:
• Only drives with media loaded appear on the screen.
• You can select only partitions to which you have been given access.
• If the affected partition is online, it will be taken offline before the unload operation is performed, and
brought back online after it is complete.
You need to provide the following information in the Unload Drive screens to unload tape cartridges from
tape drives:
• Partition — the partition containing the tape drive that you want to unload. The screens include
information about the partition mode (online or offline).
• Tape drive — the tape drive that contains the cartridge that you want to unload.
You can sort the list of tape drives by clicking on columns with bold headings.
Note
For example, selecting the Location column heading sorts the list by location
coordinates.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the web client, select Operations > Drives > Unload.
• From the operator panel, select Operations > Unload Drive.
For step-by-step procedures, see the library's online Help. To access the online Help system, click the Help
icon at the top right of the web client or operator panel user interface.
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