Library, drive, and device-class objects

Library objects, drive objects, and device-class objects taken together represent physical storage entities.

These three objects are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Removable media devices are represented by a library, drive, and device class

• For more information about the drive object, see:
  • Managing drives
  • Managing drives
  • Defining drives
  • Defining drives
• For more information about the library object, see:
  • Managing libraries
  • Managing libraries
  • Defining libraries
  • Defining libraries
• For more information about the device class object, see Defining device classes.