Use the service magazine to perform service-related cartridge actions.
About this task
Videos are available showing how to insert cartridges in the service magazine: Service Magazine.
Procedure
Complete the following steps to insert cartridges into the service
magazine:
Open the back door.
Remove the cartridge magazine by lifting up the blue tab (
1
as in
Figure 1) and pull the cartridge
magazine out.
Figure 1. Removing cartridge magazine
Note: Make sure that you keep the cartridge magazine horizontal as you move it to and from the
library.
Insert the cartridges in the magazine.
Reinstall the cartridge magazine by lining up the skis (
2 as
in
Figure 2) that are present on
both sides of the cartridge magazine with the tracks in the drive slot
(
3 as in
Figure 2).
Figure 2. Reinstalling cartridge magazine
The blue latch will click and green power indicator (
4 as in
Figure 3) will light up, after the
magazine is connected properly.
Figure 3. Green power indicator
Close the rear door.
Results
After you close the door, the library automatically moves the cartridges into storage
slots. How each cartridge is assigned to a logical library depends on the configured
VOLSER ranges.
View the state of inserted cartridges from the
System or
Cartridge page of the
Diamondback management GUI.