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Parent topic: Cartridge storage slots

Tape drives

This section describes the tape drives supported by the TS3500 Tape Library.

Each Lxx and Dxx frame in the TS3500 Tape Library can contain one of the following types

of tape drives:

• IBM LTO Ultrium Tape Drives (Ultrium 5, Ultrium 4, Ultrium 3, Ultrium 2, or Ultrium 1

tape drives)

• IBM 3592 Tape Drives (TS1130, TS1120, or 3592 J1A tape drives)

Your commands for library operations and their responses pass through one or more

Ultrium tape drives or 3592 tape drives to the accessor controller circuit board located on

each accessor. The accessor controller handles all requests that require motion of the

accessor, including calibrations, movement of cartridges, and inventory updates. If your

library includes a second accessor, it has two accessor controllers. Because the accessor

controller (and other components of the library) has no direct access to a server, the

Ultrium tape drive or 3592 tape drive serves as a conduit for communication between the

two and interprets the protocol.

LTO Ultrium tape drives and 3592 tape drives can be placed into rows 1 through 12. Row 0,

if present, is not used.

Certain conditions apply to mixing drives and media. To learn about compatible

combinations, refer to Mixing media in drives.

• Ultrium tape drives

This section describes the Ultrium tape drives supported by the TS3500 Tape Library.

• 3592 tape drives

This section describes the 3592 tape drives supported by the TS3500 Tape Library.

• Physical addresses of drives

This topic describes the physical addresses of the tape drives in the TS3500 Tape

Library.

• Logical addresses of drives

This topic describes the logical addresses of tape drives in the TS3500 Tape Library.

Parent topic: Overview of main components

IBM TS3500 User Manual

Other manuals for IBM TS3500