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Activating cartridge memory support – HP B6960-90078 User Manual

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Configuring and Using Backup Devices

Activating Cartridge Memory Support

Chapter 2

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Activating Cartridge Memory Support

Cartridge memory support can be activated for drives with the
LTO-Ultrium media type. It provides the following:

• Updating or changing media management information, such as

medium label, medium location and pool name, and media usage
information. The latter includes date of last access, date of last write,
and number of writes.

• Importing of media that include information stored in Cartridge

Memory.

• Listing all Cartridge Memory contents for the specific medium.

• Reformatting Cartridge Memory of a specific medium from the GUI

and CLI in cases where medium header information in Cartridge
Memory is not synchronized with the medium header on the medium.

• Recognizing media used by other applications.

Activate Cartridge Memory support for a drive by setting the

Advanced

options from the

Settings

property page of the drive. Refer to Figure

2-11.

Limitations

Cartridge Memory operations on LTO devices are not supported in the
following cases:

• On Novell NetWare platforms

• On AIX platforms