Description

A bad drive cannot be removed if a medium is still in it.

Explanation

When trying to remove a drive from the FSE implementation, the command

 

fsedrive --removeName reports a problem when trying to unload the medium, and the

 

drive cannot be removed from the system.

Workaround

If the medium could not be unloaded, you must identify the reason and unload the medium

 

manually.

 

Then place the medium into a free slot in the FSE library and enter the command

 

fselibrary --update-inventory LibraryName --rescan

 

to trigger an inventory update and rescan the inventory. When complete, remove the drive

 

using the command

 

fsedrive --remove Name

 

again.

Description

After reconfiguring an FSE drive, the FSE implementation loads or unloads a different FSE drive

 

instead of the newly reconfigured drive.

Explanation

During reconfiguration, the Library Agent is not notified about the new drive device file or ID,

 

and still uses the old device file or ID.

 

Linux specific

 

Library Agent uses drive device files for addressing FSE drives.

 

Windows specific

 

Library Agent uses drive device IDs for addressing FSE drives.

Workaround

After an FSE drive is reconfigured with a modified ControlDevice variable, restart the FSE

 

implementation using the fse --restartcommand.

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