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• The Assign IE screen does not appear on the operator panel. The cartridges in the I/E station are available for use by
any partition, including the system partition. The cartridges in the I/E station remain unassigned until you import them
into a partition (importing assigns them to the partition).
• You can import unassigned tape cartridges via the operator panel or the Web client. When importing unassigned tape
cartridges, only the cartridges you actually import into a partition will be assigned to that partition. The rest of the
cartridges will remain unassigned in the I/E station.
• Unassigned cartridges are visible to host applications and can be claimed by any host application on a first-come, first-
served basis.
Process for Importing Media
You must have access to the library's I/E station and the operator panel to import cartridges.
If you have AutoClean enabled, you can also import cleaning cartridges into the library. For information, see Importing
Cleaning Media. In addition, you can bulk load cartridges into the library rather than use the I/E station to import media. For
information, see
Bulk Loading.
The process for importing cartridges includes the following steps:
1 Go to the front of the library and insert cartridges into the I/E station.
2 Close the I/E station door.
The Assign IE screen appears on the operator panel if the Manual Cartridge Assignment setting is enabled on the
operator panel System Settings screen (Tools > System Settings).
If the Assign IE screen appears, do the following:
a Assign the cartridges to the appropriate partition by selecting a partition listed on the Assign IE screen.
The partition button turns blue after it has been selected.
Caution: If you select the wrong partition, open the I/E station door. Move the cartridge to a different I/E
station slot and close the I/E station door. The library will rescan the I/E station, and the Assign IE screen will
appear again.
b Select Apply.
c If the selected partition is online, it will be taken offline before the import operation is performed, and brought
back online after the operation is complete. If the library contains multiple partitions, the import operation will not
affect operations in other partitions.
3 Use the Import Media screens on either the operator panel or the Web client to import the cartridges into the
partition. Follow the on-screen prompts, or see the library's online Help for step-by-step procedures. To access the
online Help system, click the Help icon at the top right of the Web client or operator panel user interface.
You need to provide the following information in the Import Media screens to import media:
• Partition — The partition into which you want to import the cartridges. The screen lists only the partitions to
which you have been given access. The screen includes information about the partition mode (online or offline)
and the number of empty slots in the partition. The number of cartridges you can import is limited to the number
of empty slots.
• Media — The cartridges that you want to import.
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.
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the Web client, select Operations > Media > Import.
• From the operator panel, select Operations > Import Media.
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.
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