Loading the Magazines
3-10 StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library User's Guide
17. When the data tapes have been labeled, unlock the magazines.
Unlock Magazines
If the magazines have already been inserted into the enclosures, proceed as follows.
1. Log in to the browser-based user interface.
2. Select Library from the menu on the left side of the user interface. The graphical
library map appears.
3. In the library display at right, click Library.
A context menu appears.
4. From the Library context menu, select Unlock Magazines.
The Unlock Magazines dialog appears. It displays a button for each magazine. It
reminds you that the library will automatically go offline when you unlock
magazines.
5. To unlock all selected magazines at once, press the Select All button.
6. To unlock one or more individually selected magazines, press the button labeled
Module m Side Magazine where:
■ m is the module number.
■ Side is the side of the module where the magazine is located, either Left or
Right.
For example, to select the right magazine in the second library module, you would
press the button labeled Module 2 Right Magazine in an unpartitioned library.
7. To clear your selections, press the Unselect All button.
8. To close the dialog without unlocking any magazines and without taking the
library offline, press the Cancel button.
9. Otherwise, when you have selected the magazines that you need to unlock, press
OK to take the library offline and unlock the magazines.
If you press OK, the library remains busy until all magazines are unlocked.
10. Once the magazines are unlocked, load the magazines into the base module.
Load the Magazines in the Base Module
Start by loading the magazines in the base module. Proceed as follows:
1. On the base module, grip the front handle of the left magazine with one hand and
slide the magazine smoothly out of the enclosure like a long, narrow drawer,
supporting the underside with your other hand.
Each magazine contains 15 cartridge slots in three rows of five. The open ends of
the slots face the inside of the library, so that openings of left and right magazines
face each other when installed.
Library slots are addressed by library-module, magazine, row, column, where:
■ library-module is the ordinal number of the module that contains the slot.
Modules are numbered by starting from the base module
(
1
) and counting
down.
■ magazine identifies the magazine that contains the slot by position within the
chassis, either
Left
or
Right
.
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