Spectra T50e - Assign Drive Ids

Chapter 6—Configuring and Managing Partitions Creating a Storage Partition
August 2017 User Guide—Spectra T50e Library
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Assign Drive IDs
YoumustassignauniqueIDtoeachFibreChannelorSCSIdriveusedin
thepartition.
Note: SAStapedrivesdonothaveIDs.IfthepartitionusesSASdrives,
theDriveIDsscreendoesnotdisplay.Skipto
ConfirmandSave
thePartitionSettingsonpage183.
1. FromthePartitionUsersscreen,clickNext.TheDriveIDsscreen
displays.ThemethodforsettingtheDriveIDdependsontheinterface
typeusedbythedrive.
 FibreChanneldrives—SelectSoft addressingorHard addressing.
 Soft addressing (recommended) isthedefaultsetting.Thedrive
isassignedasoftaddresswhenitconnectstotheFibreChannel
arbitratedlooporfabric.
 IfyouselectHard addressing,click+and–asrequiredtoselecta
uniqueloopIDforeachtapedrive.Iftheaddressyouselectis
assignedtoanotherdeviceontheFibreChannelarbitratedloop
orfabric,thehostmaynotbeabletoconnecttothedrive.
 SCSIdrives—Click+and–asrequiredtoselectauniqueSCSIID
forthedrive.
EachdeviceontheSCSIbusmusthaveauniqueSCSIID.ValidSCSI
IDsarefrom0to15onawideSCSIbus.
Figure 117 Set the Loop ID mode for a Fibre Channel drive.
Figure 118 Set the SCSI ID for a SCSI drive.
Important
Make sure that the SCSI IDs you specify are not assigned to other devices on the
same SCSI bus. Assigning the same SCSI ID to multiple devices on the same SCSI
bus causes communication problems on the bus.