Gateway E-824R, E-826R Viewing the status of the magazine slots, Viewing the tape drive status

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Viewing the status of the magazine slots

Important

The Move command appears only if the security is disabled or if you are logged in as Administrator or Operator.

The element status reports the status of the magazine slots. The status indicates whether a slot contains a cartridge or not, and which slot is allocated as the cleaning cartridge's slot.

To view an element's status:

1From the Main menu, scroll to Status, then press ENTER. The Status submenu opens.

2Scroll to Autoloader, then press ENTER. The Autoloader submenu opens.

3Scroll to Element Status, then press ENTER.

You can scroll through each of the slots. Slots that are occupied by a data cartridge are indicated by an asterisk (*). The empty slot that is assigned to a cleaning cartridge is indicated with an exclamation point (!). The slot that is occupied by a cleaning cartridge is indicated with an “at” sign (@).

4Scroll to the slot containing the cartridge for which you want to see the label, or the cartridge you want to move, then press ENTER. The Element Status screen opens, showing the bar code label for that cartridge. A Move command also appears on the screen.

If you want to move the cartridge, scroll until the location you want to move to appears under To:, then press ENTER.

- OR -

If you do not want to move the cartridge, press ESC.

Viewing the tape drive status

To view the tape drive status:

1From the Main menu, scroll to Status, then press ENTER. The Status submenu opens.

2Scroll to Drive, then press ENTER. The Drive submenu opens.

3Scroll to Status, then press ENTER. A list of messages appears. These messages may include:

Field	Description
SCSI ID	Indicates the drive’s SCSI ID number.
Compression	Indicates whether the tape drive compression is enabled or disabled.
Drive Tape	Indicates whether the tape drive is present or not.

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