SMC Question: Ejecting a Magazine
Paul_A_Suhler at notes.seagate.com
Paul_A_Suhler at notes.seagate.com
Wed Jan 13 12:47:26 PST 1999
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From: Paul A Suhler at SEAGATE on 01/13/99 12:47 PM
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Subject: SMC Question: Ejecting a Magazine
In a number of tape drives with autoloaders, all of the storage elements
reside in an ejectable magazine. There appears to be no way within the
spec to eject a magazine, since there's no way to name an object that's a
collection of storage elements. I can imagine various hacks to do the
eject:
- Load/Unload to Changer's LUN. Objection: This isn't an SMC command.
If it were, addressing the magazine would have to be implicit, making its
use in a tape library unclear. It would be ambiguous in an attached medium
changer (LUN 0).
- Move Medium from DTE or SE to I/E Element. Objection: This command
properly specifies moving one volume, not a collection of volumes.
Neither of these is very satisfactory. Can anyone suggest a reasonable, or
at least widely accepted, mechanism?
Thanks,
Paul
Paul A. Suhler, Ph.D.
Staff Development Engineer
Seagate Removable Storage Solutions
Voice: (714) 641-2485 Fax: (714) 966-7311
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