1. Locate an appropriate vacant drive bay on the back of the library.
MSL2024:
The first tape drive should be installed in the bottom drive bay. If the first tape drive is a
half-height tape drive, you can install an additional half-height tape drive in the top bay.
MSL4048:
The first tape drive should be installed in the bottom drive bay. Install each additional tape
drive in the drive bay directly above the existing tape drives. If you leave a space and later
add a tape drive in the space, the new tape drive will be assigned the next higher drive
number, leaving the tape drives numbered out of order. If the settings are restored to the
factory defaults or the library is power-cycled, the drives will be renumbered and you might
need to update the configuration of your backup servers.
NOTE: The library will not operate with a full-height tape drive installed in the second and
third half-height drive bays. Install a full-height tape drive either in the bottom two drive bays
or the top two drive bays.
NOTE: If you plan to partition the library into two logical libraries, the second tape drive
must be installed in the third half-height drive bay. For tape drive locations for two logical
libraries, see “MSL4048 and MSL8096 Tape Libraries partitioned into two logical libraries”
(page 20).
MSL8048 and MSL8096:
The first tape drive should be installed in the bottom drive bay. The MSL8048 and MSL8096
have four tape drive connectors in the locations where full-height tape drives would be
installed. When installing a half-height tape drive, install it in the drive bay directly above a
full-height tape drive or above a half-height drive and half-height face plate pair as shown
in Figure 17 (page 34).
Figure 17 MSL8048 and MSL8096 locations for half-height drives
NOTE: If you plan to partition the library into two logical libraries, the second tape drive
must be installed in the third drive half-height bay. For tape drive locations for two logical
libraries, see “MSL4048 and MSL8096 Tape Libraries partitioned into two logical libraries”
(page 20).
34 Installing the tape library
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