Loading the Magazines
3-14 StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library User's Guide
12. Otherwise, on the base module, grip the front handle of the right magazine with
one hand and slide the magazine smoothly out of the enclosure, supporting the
underside with your other hand.
13. Place the right magazine upright on your work surface, with the handle facing
right and the slot openings facing you.
14. If you plan on using host-managed drive cleaning and plan on partitioning the
library, be sure to place one or, preferably, two LTO universal cleaning cartridges
in each library or partition. Insert each cartridge into a magazine slot with the
cartridge hub down and the label and write-protect switch visible on the open side
of the magazine. Gently push the cartridge into the slot until the plastic retention
spring snaps into place.
A partition is, in effect, an independent virtual library, controlled by a single host.
So host
applications cannot access slots or drives that lie outside their partition. If
the host application is to manage drive cleaning, you must therefore place cleaning
media in each partition of a partitioned library.
The table below shows a configuration where the left and right magazines are to
be in sepa
rate partitions. The data slots in the left magazine will be assigned to the
host that controls partition 1. All slots in the right magazine will be assigned to the
host that controls partition 2. Slots
1,
Left,
2,
1
and
1,
Left,
3,
1
hold the
cleaning media that will be used by the host application that controls partition 1.
So we place cleaning media in slots
1,
Right,
2,
1
and
1,
Right,
3,
1
, where the
host application that controls partition 2 will be able to reach them:
Table 3–9 Module 1, Left Magazine: Partition 1, Cleaning Tapes in Storage Slots
Left Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5
Row 1
Row 2
CLNU01CU
Row 3
CLNU02CU
Table 3–10 Module 1, Right Magazine: Partition 2, Cleaning Tapes in Storage Slots
Right Column 5 Column 4 Column 3 Column 2 Column 1
Row 1
Row 2
CLNU03CU
Row 3
CLNU04CU
Note that the left and right magazines are handed. Magazine columns are
numbered starting from the front of the library. So, in the left magazine, column 1
is at the left when you face the open side of the magazine. In the right magazine, it
is at the right.
15. Load the data cartridges into the magazine. Insert each cartridge into a magazine
slot with the cartridge hub down and the label and write-protect switch visible on
the open side of the magazine. Gently push the cartridge into the slot until the
plastic retention spring snaps into place.
The table below shows the right magazine loaded with data cartridges:
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