User's Guide

Chapter 12 Installing, Removing, and Replacing
Cabling the Library
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It is important to consider how drives are assigned to partitions when
cabling tape drives and hosts to an FC I/O blade. If you want a host to be
able to communicate with a tape drive that is assigned to a particular
partition, both the drive and the host that has access to the partition
should communicate through the same FC I/O blade.
The following table provides an example of a 41U library with FC I/O
blade-attached tape drives. The information next to the image shows each
tape drive and the FC I/O blade and port to which each tape drive is
connected.