Technical information

9871 Tenth Edition 3-31
Operating in Manual Mode
When an unallocated transport is properly reset, this display appears:
Setting Transport Display Intensity
Note: Only the 4480/4490 drives allow setting of the transport display
intensity.
To adjust the intensity of the transport display:
1. Press the
REWIND and UNLOAD switches at the same time.
Note: When the switches are held down, the display dims to the next level
of intensity (100 percent, 50 percent, 25 percent, and off) every 2
seconds.
2. Release the switches when a suitable intensity is present.
Locating a Cartridge in the LSM
The following pages describe how to locate a cartridge in the LSM. The
cartridge VOLSER and cell location are provided in a console message and on
the transport/drive display panel.
Cartridge Location in the Console Message
The console message provides the VOLSER and cell location of the cartridge,
and the address of the transport/drive allocated for the mount. Before entering
the LSM, write down the VOLSER, cell location, and transport/drive address.
Cartridge Location on the Message Display Panel
Inside a manual mode LSM, the transport/drive display panel–when the
transport is allocated by the operating system for a mount–toggles between the
VOLSER and cell location of the requested cartridge. The VOLSER appears as
seven characters: the six-character volume serial number prefixed with an M,
indicating the transport is waiting for the mount.
The cell location appears in the following format:
where:
ll identifies an LSM
pp identifies an LSM panel
rr identifies a row in the panel
cc identifies a column in the row
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l l p p r r c c