User's Guide

Chapter 12 Installing, Removing, and Replacing
Cabling the Library
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Taking a Library
Offline 12
To take an entire library offline, take all of its partitions offline.
1 Using the library’s operator panel, select
Operations > Change
Partition Mode
; or, using the Web client, select Operations > Partitions
> Change Mode
.
2 For each partition that you want to take offline, click
Offline.
3 Click
Apply.
Cabling the Library
Use the following cabling procedure appropriate for your drive type.
• Specific Instructions for LTO-5 and LTO-6
Tape Drives on page 289
• Cabling Libraries With SCSI Tape Drives
on page 293
• Cabling Libraries With SAS Tape Drives
on page 298
• Cabling Libraries With Fibre Channel Tape Drives
Connected
Directly to a Host or Switch on page 303
• Cabling Libraries With Fibre Channel Tape Drives Connected to
Fibre Channel I/O Blades on page 308
• Recommended Library Cabling for FC I/O Blades
on page 313
• Managing Ethernet Cables
on page 320
Specific Instructions for
LTO-5 and LTO-6 Tape
Drives 12
The library handles the Ethernet and Fibre Channel data ports on LTO-5
and LTO-6 tape drives differently depending on the tape drive. See
Figure 37
, Figure 38, and Figure 39 for details.