STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual (B5151-90003)

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Preparing Storage Devices
Preparing Tapes and DDSs
Figure 3-5. Preparing Tapes for Sequential Devices
Parallel Pool If you are using parallel device pools, divide your media among the
devices in each device pool, placing them in order with the label side up.
For example, if the first device pool has two sequential devices and four
media, stack media Reel1 Set1 and Reel3 Set1 near device A1, and
place media Reel2 Set1 and Reel4 Set1 near device A2. Figure 3-6.
shows media prepared for storing files to parallel device pools.