User's Manual

Chapter 8 Troubleshooting
Identifying Tape Drives
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•Model
•Type
• Serial number
• Tape drive firmware version
• Sled boot version
• Sled application version
• Mode status — online/offline, ready/not ready
• Loaded status — unloaded/loaded
• SCSI ID for SCSI tape drives
• World Wide Node Name (WWNN) for Fibre Channel (FC) tape
drives
• SAS address for SAS tape drives
The web client
Identify Drives screen lists the following information for
each tape drive:
• Location coordinates
• Mode status — online/offline
• State — ready/not ready
• Drive type
•Protocol
• Control path tape drive status — yes/no
•Vendor
• Physical serial number (P-SN)
• Logical serial number (L-SN)
• Tape drive firmware version
On the operator panel
Drive Information screen, you can identify the tape
drives assigned to the selected partition as well as the control path tape
Note: Bold column headings in the table can be sorted. For example,
selecting the
Location column heading will sort by location
coordinates.