Doors

This section describes the doors of the frames of the TS3500 tape library.

Located at the front of each frame in the TS3500 tape library is the front door. The door lets you access the cartridge storage slots that are mounted on the door wall and frame wall (service personnel use the door to access the rail assembly, cartridge accessor, and accessor controller).

The operator panel ( 1  in Figure 1) is mounted on the front door of the base frame. Also located on the base frame's door are the power switch  2  and up to two input/output (I/O) stations  3  and  4 . A door handle  5  and a keylock (with key)  6  are included on the front door of all frames (the keys to all front doors are interchangeable). To unlock and open the door of any frame, insert the key into the keylock and turn it counterclockwise approximately 180°.

Each frame of the TS3500 tape library also includes a rear door with a keylock and key (the keys to all rear doors are interchangeable). To unlock the rear door of any frame, insert the key into the keylock and turn it clockwise.

The keys to the front and rear doors are not interchangeable.

With the exception of the service bays, if you open the front door of any frame during an operation the TS3500 tape library fails the active operation and rejects new requests for operations until all doors are closed. Note that application processes may fail if you do not halt the application before opening the front door. Approximately 15 seconds after you have closed all doors, the library performs an inventory update for frames whose doors have been opened (a process that determines whether cartridges have been added to or removed from the library, or moved within the library). Following the inventory, the library accepts new requests for operations.

If you need to open the door of a service bay, press the PAUSE key to avoid failing the active operation (the PAUSE key is located on the Activity screen).