Loading and Unloading Magazines
Importing and Exporting Media 6-7
7. To unlock one or more individually selected magazines, press the button labeled
Module m Side Magazine or Partition p: Module m Side Magazine, where:
â– m is the module number
â– p is the partition number (if the library is partitioned)
â– 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 module of an
unpartitioned library, you would press the button labeled Module 2 Right
Magazine. To select the right magazine in the first partition, second module of a
partitioned library, you would press the button labeled Partition 1: Module 2
Right Magazine.
8. To clear your selections, press the Unselect All button.
9. To close the dialog without unlocking any magazines and without taking the
library offline, press the Cancel button.
10. Otherwise, to take the library offline and unlock the magazines, press OK.
If you press OK, the library remains busy until all magazines are unlocked.
11. To remove a magazine from the library, grip the front handle with one hand and
slide the magazine smoothly out of the enclosure while supporting the weight
with your other hand. If the magazine already contains tapes, be careful to hold it
so that tape cartridges do not fall out of the slots.
12. Now load the cartridges into the magazines.
Load and Unload Magazines
1. Place each magazine upright on a clean, level surface, where you have room to
work and where cartridges will not be subjected to magnetic fields.
2. Pull each cartridge that you need to remove out of its slot in the magazine. Set the
cartridge aside in a suitable storage container.
3. Select the cartridges that you will load into the magazine. Place them on your
work surface.
4. Carefully check each cartridge for defects, temperature, and missing or misplaced
labels, as described in
"Inspecting Cartridges" on page 6-4.
5. 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. Push the
cartridge into the slot until the plastic retention spring snaps into place.
6. When ready, reinstall the magazines.
Reinstall Magazines
1. Grasp the handle on the front of the magazine with one hand while supporting the
magazine's weight with the other. Be careful to hold the magazine so that tapes do
not fall out of the slots.
2. Carefully align the magazine with the correct magazine bay of the correct library
module. Magazines are handed, so a right-side magazine will only fit in the
right-side bay and a left-side magazine will only fit a left-side bay.
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