Place The Drive Offline (Operator Panel); Place The Tape Drive Offline (Vop) - Sun Microsystems StorageTek T10000 Operator's Manual

Place the Drive Offline (Operator Panel)

To change the drive state to offline:
1. Cease all I/O activity from the host.
In mainframe environments, this is done by varying the tape drive offline for all
host paths to the tape drive by keying in one of the following commands:
MVS: V <address> offline
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VM: Vary off, <address>
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In open systems environments, this is usually done by either:
Stopping the job that is using the tape drive
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Or, in a multi-host setting, make sure that any job using the tape drive has been
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stopped and then, if there is a switch unit in use, blocking the port in that switch
to the tape drive.
2. Press the operator panel Menu button.
Online appears in the display window, indicating the current state of the drive.
3. Press the operator panel Select button to toggle the drive state.
Offline appears in the display window, indicating a successful transition to the
offline state.
4. Press the Menu button until Exit Menu? appears in the display window.
5. Press the Select button to exit the menu system.

Place the Tape Drive Offline (VOP)

To change the tape drive state to offline:
1. Cease all I/O activity from the host.
In mainframe environments, this is done by varying the tape drive offline for all
host paths to the tape drive by keying in one of the following commands:
MVS: V <address> offline
■
VM: Vary off, <address>
■
In open systems environments, this is usually done by either:
Stopping the job that is using that tape drive
■
Or, in a multi-host setting, make sure that any job using that tape drive has been
■
stopped and then, if there is a switch unit in use, blocking the port in that switch
to that tape drive.
2. Click the VOP Online button.
If the tape drive is online, the button is blue. Clicking the blue button changes the
button to grey, indicating that the tape drive is offline.
This can also be done from the File drop-down menu.
Select Drive Operations > Set Offline.
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Place the Drive Offline (Operator Panel)
Chapter 3 Operator Tasks 41