Changing the Tape Drive Mode

The web client allows you to change the mode of tape drives installed in the library. There are two tape drive modes: online and offline.

Some operations, such as maintenance activities, require that a tape drive be offline. You can take a drive offline rather than the entire partition to minimize disruption of library operations.

Changing a tape drive mode using the library web client may affect your host application. See your host application documentation for more information.

  1. From the Operations menu, select Drive > Change Mode.

    The Change Drive Mode screen displays. This screen lists each tape drive's partition, location, state, current mode, activity, and type.

  2. NOTE: If more than four tape drives are installed in the library, use the Page 1 of x arrows to view the additional tape drives.

  3. Locate the tape drive that you want to take offline or bring online.

    In the tape drive table under Mode, the Current column indicates the current mode of the tape drive. The New column contains an Online/Offline button. The button toggles between modes.

  4. Toggle the Online/Offline button to the desired mode.
  5. NOTE: If you change the mode of a control path tape drive to offline, a caution dialog appears asking you to confirm the mode change. For information on control path tape drives, see Modifying the Control Path.

  6. Click Apply.

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