HP B6960-90078 manual Activating Cartridge Memory Support, Limitations

Configuring and Using Backup Devices

Activating Cartridge Memory Support

Activating Cartridge Memory Support

Cartridge memory support can be activated for drives with the

LTO-Ultrium media type. It provides the following:

•Updating or changing media management information, such as medium label, medium location and pool name, and media usage information. The latter includes date of last access, date of last write, and number of writes.

•Importing of media that include information stored in Cartridge Memory.

•Listing all Cartridge Memory contents for the specific medium.

•Reformatting Cartridge Memory of a specific medium from the GUI and CLI in cases where medium header information in Cartridge Memory is not synchronized with the medium header on the medium.

•Recognizing media used by other applications.

Activate Cartridge Memory support for a drive by setting the Advanced options from the Settings property page of the drive. Refer to Figure 2-11.

Limitations	Cartridge Memory operations on LTO devices are not supported in the
	following cases:
	•	On Novell NetWare platforms
	•	On AIX platforms

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