Sun Microsystems SL500 manual Robot Diagnostic Moves, Target Address Range

Robot Diagnostic Moves

Robot Diagnostic Moves

Note – This feature is available starting with SL500 firmware version 1026 and SL Console version 2.40.

Diagnostic moves are used to monitor or diagnose a problem with a HandBot. The move can be performed with or without cartridges.

Successful diagnostic moves do not rearrange the cartridges in the storage cells; cartridges are returned to their original locations after the diagnostic move is completed. However, some diagnostic move failures can cause cartridges to be left in new locations.

A diagnostic move involves the following elements:

■Target Address Range

■Pool Address Range

■Move Access Order

Target Address Range

The target address range defines the location parameters in a library within which the get operation is performed in a diagnostic move. There are two types of access orders for a target address:

■“Sequential Access Order” on page 255

■“Random Access Order” on page 255

Following are valid target address types:

■Storage cells—Reserves all the storage locations as the target range

■CAP—Reserves the cells in the as the target/pool range.

■Drive and Storage cells—Reserves all the drives and storage cells as the target/pool range.

■System cells—Reserves the locations (reserved cells) containing the cleaning or diagnostic cartridges as the target/pool range.

■All—Reserves all storage cells, CAP and Drives as target/pool range.

Note – Selecting the Storage, CAP, drive, system, or All option does reserve all the associated locations as the target range. However, only the location currently being accessed by the HandBot for a get/put operation is unavailable to the host.

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