Chapter 15: Maintaining Your Library
Maintenance Actions
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RAS The status of the drive as reported by the RAS system (for example, Good or
Failed).
WWN/SCSI ID Indicates either:
• For Fibre drives only, the World Wide Name of the drive, or
• For SCSI drives only, the SCSI ID of the drive
Volser If a cartridge is loaded in the specified drive, the volume serial number of the
cartridge.
Partition Name The name of the partition to which the drive is assigned.
Serial # The tape drive’s serial number.
Firmware Version Tape version of firmware on the tape drive.
In the Control area:
Power Cycle Cycles power to the specified drive by removing the power and then restoring it.
In general, you should try to reset drives before you cycle power to them.
Reset Drive Resets the specified drive without cycling the power.
Identify Causes status LEDs on the back of the specified drive to blink rapidly so that you
can identify it.
When you click Identify, a message appears that informs you that you can now
identify the drive by the rapidly blinking LED on the back of it. After you find the
drive, click OK to stop the rapid blinking.
Self Test For LTO-type drives only, runs a pass/fail test on the specified drive. This button
is available only when you select an LTO-type drive.
Eject Ejects any currently loaded tape from the specified drive.
Clean Enables the drive cleaning process (see Cleaning a Drive on page 566).
Get Drive Log Enables you to mail or save the log of a Fibre drive that is attached to an I/O
blade (see
Mailing, Saving, and Printing Test Logs on page 656). This button is
available only for I/O blade-attached Fibre drives that are properly connected
and configured. If the button is not available for a Fibre drive, verify that it is
properly connected to the I/O blade and that communication is established
between them.
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