Users Guide

Chapter 9 Running Your Library
Locking and Unlocking the I/E Stations
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• Upload/remove tape drive firmware for autoleveling. Available only
for FC tape drives connected to an FC I/O blade. For more
information, see Autoleveling Tape Drive Firmware on page 208.
• Reset tape drives. Resetting a tape drive power cycles the tape drive
while the tape drive remains in the drive sled in the library. For more
information, see Drive Reset on page 411.
Locking and Unlocking the I/E Stations
Each 5U Library Control Module and 9U Library 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.
Administrators 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 5U Library Control
Module I/E station only.
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
Note: Some host applications use a command to lock and unlock I/E
station doors. 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.