Complete this task to remove a drive from a physical library.
About this task
Note: In the TS3500 tape library, a drive
that has already been assigned, but has lost communication, will not
be removed from the configuration data. It is only removed if it is
unassigned.
Procedure
- From the Work Items navigation pane, select Drives
—> Drive Assignment. The Drive Assignment screen displays.
- For each drive to be removed, select the box in the Unassigned
column to add a check mark (this removes the check mark in the logical
library box).
Note: You cannot move a drive into the Unassigned
column if it contains a cartridge. Also, if the drive to be removed
is a control path drive, you must ensure that a second drive is designated
as the control path drive before you remove the first control path
drive.
- From the Select Action drop-down box, select Apply, then select Go.
The Drive Assignment Operation in Progress screen displays. After
a short delay, the Success screen displays to indicate that the changes
are complete.
- Select Close.
The Drive
Assignment screen redisplays. The drives that you selected are checked
in the Unassigned column and are no longer available to the logical
libraries.
- Use the appropriate procedure to physically
remove an LTO Ultrium Fibre Channel drive or a 3592 Fibre Channel
drive from the physical library.
- After you remove the drive from the library,
select Drives —> Drive Assignment.
After a short
delay, the Drive Assignment screen redisplays.
- Ensure that the drive does not display in the Drive Assignment
screen. If it displays, wait a few moments and refresh the screen
again (some delay in this procedure is expected).
Note: If you physically remove a drive that is not assigned to a logical
library, that drive will not display in the Drive Assignment screen;
if you remove a drive that is assigned to a logical library, its background
in the Drive Assignment screen becomes gray. This indicates that the
drive no longer communicates. The drive remains in its associated
logical library until you unassign it by using the procedure to remove
a drive from a logical library.