Manually Cleaning Tape Drives; Locking And Unlocking The I/E Stations - Tandberg Data Storage Library T128 User Manual

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.

Manually Cleaning Tape Drives

The Clean Drive screens on the operator panel user interface allow administrative users to manually clean
tape drives.
Be sure to unload the tape drive before attempting to clean it. If the tape drive is
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loaded with a cartridge, it will not available for this operation.
The Clean Drive screens allow you to select the tape drive that you want to clean. You are then prompted
to insert a cleaning cartridge in the topmost I/E station slot and select Apply. The library then takes the
associated partition offline, moves the cleaning cartridge from the I/E station slot to the designated tape
drive, and cleans the tape drive.
When the operation is complete, the library moves the cleaning cartridge back to the I/E station slot and
takes the partition back online.
If your library has zero I/E station slots, you will not be able to manually clean
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tape drives. See
Manually cleaning tape drives can be performed only from the operator panel. The path to open the
appropriate screen is as follows:
• From the operator panel, select Tools > Drive Mgmt > Clean Drive.

Locking and Unlocking the I/E Stations

Each 5U control module and 9U expansion module has an I/E station door with multiple open and close
sensors. A secondary door located behind the I/E station door acts as a redundant indicator as to whether
the I/E station is opened or closed. When you are finished accessing the I/E station, make sure the station
door is fully closed.
Administrative users can use this operation to lock or unlock the doors for all I/E stations that are configured
as I/E station slots. If all I/E station slots are configured as storage, this operation unlocks the control module
I/E station only.
Some host applications use a command to lock and unlock I/E station doors.
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This command usually cannot be overridden by the library. Use the host
application to lock or unlock I/E station doors if this occurs. Using the library
lock/unlock operation may affect the host application. See your host application
documentation for information.
There are three reasons the I/E station door locks:
• The library imports or exports a cartridge from the I/E station door.
While the library is attempting to import or export a tape from a given I/E station slot, only the
associated I/E station door is locked in the closed position. All other I/E station doors remain
accessible. On a get from an I/E station slot, the associated I/E station door remains locked until
the media has been successfully moved to its destination. This allows the media to be returned to
the I/E station slot in the event of a put error.
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Configuring I/E Station Slots on page 40.
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