Table 20. Intervention Required Conditions relating to data cartridges (continued)

Intervention Required Condition

Resolution Actions

 

 

 

Message

1.

Remove the cartridge from the convenience I/O

 

Volser (xxxxxx) could not be put away. It was ejected

 

station.

2.

Place the library system in pause mode.

to the convenience I/O station.

 

 

Probable Cause

3.

Open the appropriate enclosure door.

4.

Inspect the cartridge's home cell for damage or

 

During a demount operation, the accessor was not able

 

blockage.

5.

Close the enclosure door.

to place the cartridge into its home cell and there are no

other available storage cells in the library. The cartridge

6.

Place the library system in auto mode.

may be damaged or something is blocking its home cell.

7.

Inspect the cartridge for damage.

If something is blocking its home cell it is likely to be a

8.

Place the cartridge in the convenience I/O station.

cartridge without an external volume serial number label.

 

 

 

 

 

Message

1.

Place the library system in pause mode.

 

Volser (xxxxxx) could not be put away. It was ejected

2.

Open the appropriate enclosure door.

 

 

to high-capacity facility cell: yyyy.

3.

Remove the cartridge from the high-capacity facility.

Probable Cause

4.

Inspect the cartridge's home cell for damage or

 

blockage.

 

 

During a demount operation, the accessor was not able

5.

Close the enclosure door.

to place the cartridge into its home cell and there are no

6.

Place the library system in auto mode.

other available storage cells in the library. In addition, the

7.

Inspect the cartridge for damage.

convenience I/O station is either not installed, is full or is

8.

Place the cartridge in the convenience I/O station.

unavailable. The cartridge may be damaged or something

is blocking its home cell. If something is blocking its

 

 

home cell it is likely to be a cartridge without an external

 

 

volume serial number label. The cartridge is in H.C.F. cell

 

 

yyyy.

 

 

 

 

 

Message

1.

Place the library system in pause mode.

 

Volser (xxxxxx) cannot be removed from cell: yyyy.

2.

Open the appropriate enclosure door.

 

 

Probable Cause

3.

Remove the cartridge from the indicated cell.

4.

Inspect the cell for damage.

 

The accessor was not able to remove the cartridge from

5.

Close the enclosure door.

its home cell. The cartridge or its home cell may be

6.

Place the library system in auto mode.

damaged or something is blocking its home cell. The

7.

Inspect the cartridge for damage.

library could also be out of alignment or the gripper is

8.

Place the cartridge in the convenience I/O station.

failing. The cartridge is in cell yyyy.

 

 

 

 

 

Table for Intervention Conditions of Cleaner Cartridges

Table 21. Intervention Required Conditions relating to cleaner cartridges

Intervention Required Condition

Resolution Actions

 

 

Message

1. Place 3490 type cleaning cartridges in the

 

The library is out of CST/ECCST cleaner cartridges.

convenience I/O station.

 

Probable Cause

2. This condition cannot be cleared by selecting it from

the list of actions. Instead, this condition is cleared

A clean operation for a 3490 type tape device needs to

automatically by the library system when a cleaning

cartridges, of the appropriate type, are inserted by the

be performed, but there are no available compatible

operator.

cleaner cartridges in the library. Either no cleaner

 

cartridges have been added to the library, or they have all

 

been used and have been ejected.

 

 

 

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