1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Cartridge Management
  3. Absent and Ejected Cartridge

Absent and Ejected Cartridge

This section discusses absent and ejected cartridges.

Cartridges Not Found

When Cartridge Recovery can examine all recorded locations and it cannot find a cartridge:

  1. If the ABSENT_CARTRIDGE_RETENTION_PERIOD is 0, Cartridge Recovery:

    • Deletes the cartridge record from the database.

    • Marks the cell record in the database for the cell that was the cartridges' home cell as “empty."

  2. If the ABSENT_CARTRIDGE_RETENTION_PERIOD is greater than 0, Cartridge Recovery:

    • Changes the status of the cartridge record in the database to “absent" if the cartridge has not already been marked absent or ejected.

    • Records the cartridge as “homeless" (with a minus one (-1) in the home_lsm field).

    • Marks the cell record in the database of the cartridges' former home cell as “empty."

Cartridges Found

If Cartridge Recovery finds an ejected or absent cartridge, it reactivates the cartridge.

If the ejected or absent cartridge is found in a storage cell, this becomes its new home cell, and Cartridge Recovery changes the cartridges' status to “home" in the database.

If the cartridge is found in a drive, ACSLS assigns a new home cell when the cartridge is dismounted.