Administrative Tasks

Associate a Drive with an Archive

Drives can be defined before the creation of media classes. However, they ultimately must be associated with an archive before they can be used to mount media.

After all drives are successfully defined, they must be associated with an archive before they can be used to mount media. The Associate Drive command is used to associate a drive with an archive.

Drive association parameters are acquired by VolServ software via the GUI. Basic association parameters consist of associate drive, associate with archive, and CLM/DriveSlot (automated archive only). The associate drive entry must match a drive ID entered during drive definition. The associate with archive entry must match an archive name entered during archive configuration.

When a drive is associated with an automated archive, the physical location of the drive must also be specified. This information is contained in the CLM/DriveSlot entry and describes the media hand-off location between the robot and the drive. Entries in this field are four integers, separated by commas, with the form #,#,#,# for the following archives:

DataShelf archive

DataTower archive

StorageTek ACS product family archives

Entries have the form Dc##010101 for the AML archives. The “c” character relates to the media type used by the drive. The “##” characters refer to a logical mapping of the drive slot XYZ position and is used by the AML archives.

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601354 specifications

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