Dell PowerVault ML6000 User Manual

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Chapter 13 Troubleshooting

Identifying Tape Drives

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this button when you are cabling the library or troubleshooting the

library control paths of tape drives. The green LED blinks 10 times

per second for one minute.

On the Web client

Identify Drives

screen, you can identify the tape drives

assigned to a particular partition, all unassigned tape drives, and the

control path tape drive for each partition by flashing the green LEDs on

the back of tape drives that are in a ready state:

• Use the

Identify All

button to flash the LEDs on the back of the

selected tape drives. Only tape drives in a ready state will flash. If

you have selected a specific partition or have only one partition

configured, all the green LEDs on the tape drives within the partition

will blink. If you have selected

Unassigned

, all the green LEDs on the

unassigned tape drives will blink. If you have selected

All

, the green

LEDs on all tape drives installed in the library will blink.

• Click

Identify Control Path

to flash the green LEDs on the back of the

one or more control path tape drives. Only tape drives in a ready

state will flash. The control path tape drive is used to connect each

partition to the host application. Use this button when you are

cabling the library or troubleshooting the library control paths of tape

drives. If you have selected a partition, the green LED on the

partition’s control path tape drive will blink. If you have selected

All

,

the green LEDs on all the ready control path tape drives will blink.

The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:

• From the Web client, select

Tools > Identify Drives

.

• From the operator panel, select

Tools > Drive Info

.

Note:

There is no control path tape drive for a partition that uses

FC I/O blades to connect tape drives to a host application.

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