StorageTek

The Storage Tek (STK) silo management software, either a program called ACSLS that runs on a UNIX system or a program called Library Attach that runs on an MVS system, names devices according to a coordinate system based on the physical location of the devices in the silo.

For tape drives, the name consists of four digits separated by commas. The first digit refers to the automated cartridge system (ACS) with which the drive is associated. The second digit refers to the library storage module (LSM) in which the drive is located. The third and fourth digits refer to the panel and slot location in which the drive is located. A typical name for an STK drive looks like 1,0,1,0.

Ask the silo administrator the drive names for the devices that Backup can use. There is no method to find this information from the Backup system. To connect to more than one drive, find out the SCSI IDs for each drive and properly match the IDs to the silo names. If you accidentally swap operating system device names and silo names, you can only mount and unmount volumes; you cannot read or write to the volumes after they are mounted. To reconfigure the device names properly, use the Backup administration program to change the order of the device names in the STL Device Names attribute of the Jukeboxes resource.