HP ESL E manual Load ports and magazines

Models: ESL E

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Library Overview

Make it a practice to visually inspect your tape cartridges when loading or removing them from your tape library. Taking a few minutes to check the condition of your cartridges will lower the risk of repeated failures and help ensure uninterrupted backup.

Caution: Always discard damaged tape cartridges. If a defective tape cartridge is loaded into a tape drive it may damage the drive, potentially requiring drive replacement.

Note: For information on ordering tape cartridges and bar code labels, refer to the ordering sheet that shipped with your library.

Load ports and magazines

The load ports are mechanical devices in the front panel of the library that enable you to import or export tape cartridges to and from the library via three tape cartridge magazines without interrupting library operations.

There are 2 tape cartridge magazines in the left load port, and 4 in the right (see Figure 6). The number of tape cartridges in these magazines differs between the SDLT and LTO libraries. Table 3 lists LTO slot count for various configurations; Table 4 lists SDLT slot count.

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