Updating a Manual Drive

To update a drive, first complete the following fields and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end the task.

Library Name

Select the name of the library to which the drive is to be assigned.

Drive Name

Enter the server name assigned to the drive. The maximum length of this name is 30 characters.

Device On-Line

Select the value of the drive's online state even if the drive is in use. This parameter is optional.

Do not specify other optional parameters along with ONLINE=YES or ONLINE=NO, because the drive will not be updated and the command will fail when the drive is in use.

Available options are the following:

Yes Specifies that the drive is to be available for use.
No Specifies that the drive will not be online.

This command can be issued when the drive is involved in an active process or session, but it is not recommended. This command allows drives to be taken offline and used for another activity, such as maintenance.

If you make the drive offline while it is in use, the drive will be marked offline. However, the mounted volume will complete its current process. If this volume was part of a series of volumes for a given transaction, the drive will no longer be available to complete mounting the series. If no other drives are available, the active process may fail.

The updated state will be retained even when the server is halted and brought up again. If a drive is marked offline when the server is brought up, a warning is issued noting that the drive must be manually brought online. If all the drives in a library are updated to be offline, processes that need a library mount point will fail, rather than queue up for one.