Loading Tape Drives

The load drive operation allows you to load a tape drive with a cartridge located in 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 load a tape drive. Loading cartridges into 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 load 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 load cartridges into tape drives.

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

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

  2. Select the partition that contains the cartridge you want to load into a tape drive.
  3. Click Next.

    The Load Drive - Partition (Mode) screen appears, where Partition is the name of the partition and Mode is the current mode of the partition.

  4. In the Select Media section, select the source cartridge you want to load into a tape drive.
  5. NOTE: You can use the Filter by Barcode text box to filter the available cartridge barcodes. Click the Help button next to the Find button for more information about filtering barcodes. In addition, if not all cartridges or tape drives appear on the screen, use the Page 1 of x arrows to view the additional cartridges or tape drives.

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

  6. In the Select Destination section, select the destination tape drive.
  7. 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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