Oracle SL150 - Support for Non-Standard Label Formats

Full label
Passes the first eight characters in the physical label: KL1020L5 is translated to
KL1020L5 .
Trim last character
Passes the first seven characters in the physical label: KL1020L is translated to
KL1020L .
Trim last two characters (default)
Passes the first six characters in the physical label: KL1020L5 is translated to KL1020 .
Trim first two characters
Passes the third through eighth characters in the physical label: KL1020L5 is
translated to 1020L5 .
Trim first character
Passes the second through eighth characters in the physical label: KL1020L5 is
translated to
L1020L5 .
Support for Non-Standard Label Formats
The SL150 can accommodate non-standard LTO labels to support proprietary labeling
schemes.
By default, the library uses the eight-character label format that is standard for
LTO cartridges. While most backup and storage management applications support
the standard LTO labeling format, a few use proprietary labeling schemes to track
volumes. If you use such an application, you can, in most cases, configure the SL150
to automatically translate between the physical labels on your cartridges and the
logical label format that the application uses internally.
Translating Between Physical and Logical Labels
To accommodate the fullest range of possible labeling schemes, the library supports
labels 8 to 14 characters long and provides a label windowing feature that lets
you specify how labels should be interpreted when communicating with the host
application.
So, for example, if the host application uses only a portion of the physical cartridge
label to identify volumes, you can tell the library to construct a logical label using a
subset of the characters. Alternatively, if the physical cartridge label is simply a string
of characters that does not identify the media domain (LTO) and generation, you can
tell the library to skip domain and type checking and send all characters to the host
without any further processing (you should not use this option, if your labels include a
domain and type).
Managing Unidentifiable, Unsupported, or Missing Labels
If the physical label on a cartridge is missing, misapplied, damaged, or incorrectly
formatted, the cartridge can be loaded and stored in the library. Since the
library software cannot identify the cartridge, it marks the Tape Label field of the
corresponding tape properties sheet [UNREADABLE].
Chapter 6
Media Labels
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