Figures
1-1. Front panel of a 14U library . . . . . . 1-2
1-2. Rear panel of a 14U library . . . . . . 1-5
1-3. Storage columns . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
1-4. Robotic System of the library . . . . . . 1-7
1-5. SCSI Ultrium 3 Tape Drives in the library
control module . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
1-6. Library Location Coordinates . . . . . 1-12
1-7. Drive location coordinates . . . . . . 1-13
1-8. Power supply location coordinates 1-14
3-1. Cabling on a 5U library . . . . . . . 3-3
3-2. Cabling on a 14U library . . . . . . . 3-3
3-3. Rack Mount Kit hardware (parts not sized
proportionately in figure) . . . . . . . 3-5
3-4. EIA identification and rail stud locations for
FRONT vertical rack rails . . . . . . . 3-7
3-5. EIA identification and rail stud locations for
REAR vertical rack rails . . . . . . . 3-7
3-6. Rails installed in rack (front view) 3-9
3-7. Rails installed in rack (rear view) 3-10
3-8. Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
3-9. SCSI Drive Sled (detail) . . . . . . . 3-12
3-10. Installing the rack ears on a Control
Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
3-11. Control Module Drive Sled . . . . . . 3-14
3-12. Guide rails and guide slots inside a drive
slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
3-13. Tape Drive (detail) . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3-14. Control Module Power Supply . . . . . 3-16
3-15. Cabling of a 5U library with fibre drives 3-17
3-16. Cabling of a 5U Library with one SCSI
drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18
3-17. Cabling of a 14U library containing
multiple fibre drives . . . . . . . . 3-19
3-18. Cabling of a 14U library containing
multiple SCSI drives . . . . . . . . 3-20
5-1. Operator Panel common header elements
and subsystem status buttons . . . . . 5-2
5-2. Operator Panel Login screen . . . . . . 5-3
5-3. Capacity View Home screen . . . . . . 5-4
5-4. Library View Home screen . . . . . . 5-5
5-5. Setup menu screen . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-6. Operations menu screen . . . . . . . 5-6
5-7. Tools menu screen . . . . . . . . . 5-7
5-8. 3576 Tape Library menu tree . . . . . . 5-7
5-9. Web User Interface menus . . . . . . . 5-9
6-1. Operator Panel Log in screen . . . . . . 6-2
8-1. The IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 400 GB
Data Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
8-2. Ultrium 3 WORM Tape Cartridge 8-3
8-3. Sample bar code label on the LTO Ultrium 3
Tape Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . 8-6
8-4. Setting the write-protect switch . . . . . 8-7
8-5. Tape cartridges in a Turtlecase . . . . . 8-8
8-6. Double-boxing tape cartridges for shipping 8-9
8-7. Checking for gaps in the seams of a
cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
8-8. Leader pin in the incorrect and correct
positions . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
8-9. Placing the dislodged leader pin into the
correct position . . . . . . . . . . 8-12
8-10. Rewinding the tape into the cartridge 8-12
8-11. Leader Pin Reattachment Kit . . . . . 8-13
8-12. Attaching the leader pin attach tool to the
cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
8-13. Winding the tape out of the cartridge 8-15
8-14. Removing the C-clip from the leader pin 8-15
8-15. Attaching the leader pin to the tape 8-16
9-1. Power button LEDs . . . . . . . . . 9-6
9-2. Library Control Blade LEDs . . . . . . 9-7
9-3. Tape drive LEDs . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
9-4. Power supply LEDs . . . . . . . . 9-10
9-5. Picker LED . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12
9-6. Cabling of a 5U Library with Fibre Drives 9-12
9-7. Cabling of a 5U Library with SCSI Drives 9-13
9-8. Cabling of a 14U Library with Fibre Drives 9-13
9-9. Cabling of a 14U Library with SCSI Drives 9-14
11-1. Power supplies in a control module 11-3
11-2. Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
11-3. Control module with one SCSI drive and
one cover plate . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
11-4. Control module with one SCSI drive
installed and one open drive slot with
cover plate removed . . . . . . . . 11-7
11-5. Control Module with two Drive Sleds 11-8
11-6. Drive sled (detail) . . . . . . . . . 11-9
11-7. Library Control Blade . . . . . . . 11-11
11-8. LCB firmware board . . . . . . . . 11-12
11-9. Library Control Blade . . . . . . . 11-13
11-10. LCB with compact flash card . . . . . 11-14
11-11. Removing the Compact Flash Card from
the Library Control Blade . . . . . . 11-16
11-12. Removing the rack ears on a Control
Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
11-13. Gear rack . . . . . . . . . . . 11-20
12-1. Types of Power Cord Plugs . . . . . . 12-3
A-1. AIX ERRPT Library Error Log Example A-2
A-2. AIX ERRPT Drive Error Log Example A-3
A-3. Example of Error Suggesting SCSI Bus
Problem, Which Takes Down Entire Bus . .A-4
A-4. SCSI Problem Points to Library Control
Path as Possible Cause . . . . . . . .A-5
A-5. AIX ERRPT Commands Error Log Example A-6
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