Identifying Tape Drives

You can view information about all the tape drives installed in the library using the Web client. The information available for each tape drive includes: location coordinate, mode status, state, drive type, protocol, control path status, vendor, physical serial number (P-SN), logical serial number (L-SN), and firmware version.

In addition, you can identify the tape drives assigned to a particular partition, all unassigned tape drives, and the control path tape drive for each partition by clicking the Identify All and Identify Control Path buttons. Doing this flashes the green LED on the back of the appropriate tape drives. You can flash only the tape drives in the ready state. See the State column on the Identify Drive - Partition/All/Unassigned screen to verify what tape drives are in the ready state.

NOTE: There is no control path tape drive for a partition that uses Fibre Channel (FC) I/O blades to connect tape drives to a host application.

Users with administrative privileges can perform all identifying tape drive operations, but users with user privileges cannot.

  1. From the Tools menu, select Identify Drives.

    The Tools - Identify Drive screen appears.

  2. NOTE: If the library has only one partition configured and no unassigned tape drives, the Identify Drive - Partition (Mode) screen appears instead of the Tools - Identify Drive screen. Continue with step 4.

  3. Do one of the following:
  4. Click Next.

    Depending on your selection in step 2, one of the following screens appear: Identify Drive - Partition (Mode), Identify Drive - All, or Identify Drive - Unassigned. The screen lists the following for each tape drive: location coordinate, mode status, state, drive type, protocol, control path status, vendor, physical serial number (P-SN), logical serial number (L-SN), and firmware version.

    NOTE: Bold column headings in the table can be sorted. For example, selecting the Location column heading will sort by location coordinates.

  5. Do one of the following:
  6. Do one of the following:

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