Unloading Tape Drives

The unload tape drive operation enables you to unload a cartridge from a tape drive and move it to a storage slot. The tape drive and storage slot must be assigned to the same partition.

These instructions focus on using the library web client to unload cartridges. Unloading cartridges from tape drives using the library web client may require performing an inventory operation on your host application. You can also load tape drives using your host application. See your host application documentation for more information.

If the affected partition is online, it will be taken offline before the unload operation is performed, and brought back online after it is complete. You will be asked to confirm that you want to take the partition offline.

Users and administrative users can unload cartridges from tape drives.

  1. From the Operations menu, select Drive > Unload.

    If more than one partition exists, the Operations - Unload Drive screen appears. This screen contains a list of available partitions. If only one partition exists, this screen is bypassed and the Unload Drive - Partition (Mode) screen appears.

  2. Select the partition that contains the tape drive you want to unload.
  3. Click Next.

    The Unload Drive - Partition (Mode) screen appears, where Partition is the name of the partition and Mode is the current mode of the partition. The screen contains a list of all tape drives in the partition that are loaded with a cartridge.

  4. Select the tape drive you want to unload.

    NOTE: If not all drives appear on the screen, use the Page 1 of x arrows to view the additional cartridges.

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

  5. Click Apply.

    The Progress Window appears. The Progress Window contains information on the action, elapsed time, and status of the requested operation. Do one of the following:

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