Viewing drive details, Drive details dialog box – HP StoreEver ESL G3 Tape Libraries User Manual

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Description

Element

In the Control area:

Cycles power to the specified drive by removing the power and then restoring
it. Try to reset drives before you cycle power to them.

Power Cycle

Resets the specified drive without cycling the power.

Reset Drive

Varies off or varies on the specified drive. The label of the button toggles
between Vary Off and Vary On. Each use of this button updates the drive
information in the Drive(s) area. Use this button to hot swap drives.

Vary Off or Vary On

Causes a status LED on the back of the specified drive to blink rapidly so
that you can identify it. When you click Identify, a message appears that
informs you that you can now identify the drive by the rapidly blinking LED
on the back of it. After you find the drive, click OK to stop the rapid blinking.

Identify

Runs a pass/fail test on the specified drive.

Self Test

Ejects any currently loaded tape from the specified drive.

Eject

Enables you to e-mail or save a Support Ticket (see

Emailing, Saving, and

Printing Test Logs

Support Ticket

Enables the drive cleaning process (see

Cleaning a Drive

Clean

Displays the Drive Details dialog box for the selected drive. See

Viewing

Drive Details

for more information.

Details

Closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Displays context-specific Online Help.

Help

In the Drive(s) area, click the appropriate drive row to highlight it.

Perform operations in the Control area of the Drives dialog box.

Viewing Drive Details

To view drive details:

On the Drives dialog box in the Drive(s) area, click the appropriate drive row to highlight it.

Click Details.
The Drive Details dialog box appears.
The Drive Details region of the Drive Details dialog box displays detailed information about the
selected drive.

Table 31

describes the elements that appear in this region. For descriptions of elements in the

Control area, see

Configuring and Testing Drives

Table 31 Drive Details Dialog Box

Description

Element

The brand name of the drive model.

Drive Model

The drive vendor.

Vendor

The firmware version that is currently installed on the drive.

Firmware Level

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