Moving Cartridges to a Specific Cell

An SL3000 can partition down to the drive and cell level, and an SL8500 with enhanced partitioning can partition to the drive and cell array level. If cells are reassigned from one partition to another, the cartridges in these cells are orphaned, and are no longer accessible by the partition that they were in before. The host managing the other partition could then write over the data on these cartridges.

To prevent cartridges from being orphaned when partition boundaries change, and before you re-partition the library, move the cartridges to cells that will remain in the partition.

Since SL3000 is a single LSM, the existing ACSLS move command does not work. The cartridges would be moved somewhere else in the library, and may be moved to another cell that will also be removed from the partition. To handle this, the move command provides the ability to move cartridges to a specific cell.

The syntax for moving cartridges to a cell is like moving them to an LSM. However, instead of specifying an LSM ID, you specify a cell ID, as follows:

a=acs, l=lsm, p=panel, r=row, and c=column

move AAAAAA a,l,p,r,c (for a cell move)

move AAAAAA a,l          (for a standard LSM move)

Example for a cell move:

move EDU010 0,1,0,5,1

Note:

You can use the display command to display a list of available (empty) cells in a specified panel: display cell a,l,p,*,* -status empty -f status