Removable Media

Removable media includes tape and CD-ROM drives. Tape and CD-ROM drives are local devices. This guide does not contain procedures on adding, removing, or replacing removable media as highly-available storage devices. Although tape and CD-ROM drives are global devices, tape and CD-ROM drives do not have more than one port and do not have multi-initiator firmware support. Dual-ported disks and multi-initiator firmware support enable devices to be highly available. Thus, this guide focuses on disk drives as global devices.

Although tape and CD-ROM drives cannot be highly available at this time, in a cluster environment, you can access tape and CD-ROM drives that are not local to your system. All the various density extensions (such as h, b, l, n, and u) are mapped so that the tape drive can be accessed from any node in the cluster.

Install, add, remove, replace, and use tape and CD-ROM drives as you would in a non-cluster environment. For procedures on adding, removing, and replacing tape and CD-ROM drives, see the documentation that shipped with your hardware.