User`s guide

Chapter 4 Configuring Your Library
Working With Partitions
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6 To continue, click Next.
The Parti
tions - Step 2: Choose Policy Settings dialog box appears.
For LMP partitions, you can not modify these
properties; all options will be disabled.
7 On this dialog box, you can modify the following settings:
•For Medi
a Type Checking, select either Enable or Disable. This
setting is enabled by default.
•From the Me
dia Checking Policy drop-down list, click either
Required or Not Required.
•From the Return Me
dia Identifier drop-down list, click either
Suffix, Pass Through, Prefix, or Disabled. Depending on which
setting you choose, you can control the use of the media type
identifier in the volume serial number that is returned to the host.
When you have made your modifications, including adding or
deleting elements, your proposed changes to the partition are
highlighted in the New Value column of the table that appears
on the Partitions – Summary Information dialog box.
For more information about how media policies work, see
Understanding Partition Media Policy Settings on page 114.
•For A
utomatic Drive Cleaning, click either Enable or Disable. This
setting is enabled by default.
Enabling automatic drive cleaning allows the library to initiate drive
cleaning each tim
e a drive requests a cleaning operation. For
automatic drive cleaning to function, you must first configure drive
cleaning for the library. For more information about configuring
drive cleaning, refer
Configuring Drive Cleaning on page 214.
Note
CAUTION
After a media volume serial number has been
reported to a host, changing the Return Media
Identifier setting could cause the host to not
recognize media within the library.