Users Guide

Chapter 12 Installing, Removing, and Replacing
Cabling the Library
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Taking a Library Offline 12
To take an entire library offline, take all of its partitions offline.
1 Using the library’s operator panel, select Operations > Change
Partition Mode
; or, using the Web client, select Operations > Partitions
> Change Mode
.
2 For each partition that you want to take offline, click
Offline.
3 Click Apply.
Cabling the Library
Use the following cabling procedure appropriate for your drive type.
• Specific Instructions for LTO-5 and LTO-6 Tape Drives on page 212
• Cabling Libraries With SCSI Tape Drives on page 214
• Cabling Libraries With SAS Tape Drives on page 219
• Cabling Libraries With Fibre Channel Tape Drives Connected
Directly to a Host or Switch on page 224
• Cabling Libraries With Fibre Channel Tape Drives Connected to
Fibre Channel I/O Blades on page 228
• Recommended Library Cabling for FC I/O Blades on page 234
Specific Instructions for
LTO-5 and LTO-6 Tape
Drives 12
The library handles the Ethernet and Fibre Channel data ports on LTO-5
and LTO-6 tape drives differently depending on the tape drive. See
Figure 19 and Figure 20 for details.