Users Guide

Chapter 9 Running Your Library
Performing Media Operations
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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.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the Web client, select Operations > Drive > 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 9
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.
Note: You can filter the list of media by entering all or part of a
barcode in the Search 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.