Users Guide

Chapter 13 Troubleshooting
Identifying Tape Drives
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• Mode status — online/offline, ready/not ready
• Loaded status — unloaded/loaded
• SCSI ID for SCSI tape drives
• World Wide Node Name (WWNN) for Fibre Channel (FC) tape
drives
• SAS address for SAS tape drives
The Web client Identify Drives screen lists the following information for
each tape drive:
• Location coordinates
• Mode status — online/offline
• State — ready/not ready
• Drive type
• Protocol
• Control path tape drive status — yes/no
• Vendor
• Physical serial number (P-SN)
• Logical serial number (L-SN)
• Tape drive firmware version
On the operator panel Drive Information screen, you can identify the tape
drives assigned to the selected partition as well as the control path tape
drive for the partition by flashing the green light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
on the back of the tape drives.
• Use the Identify All button to flash the green LEDs on the back of the
tape drives assigned to the partition. The LEDs blink 10 times per
second for one minute.
• Use the Identify Ctrl Path button to flash the green LED on the back of
the control path tape drive for the partition. The control path tape
drive is used to connect each partition to the host application. Use
Note: Bold column headings in the table can be sorted. For example,
selecting the Location column heading will sort by location
coordinates.