Menu System Tasks
3-12 StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive Operator’s Guide
Figure 3–3 VOP Retrieve Menu Commands
A new dialog box containing several tabs (such as: Encrypt, Fibre, Keyid,
Manufacturing, Missing, Network, Rfid, and Version) appears.
Note: See the VOP documentation for complete information and
instructions.
To Place the Drive Offline (Operator Panel)
1. Stop all I/O activity from the host.
In mainframe environments, set the tape drive offline for all host paths to the tape
drive by using one of the following Vary commands:
■ MVS:
V <address> offline
■ VM:
Vary off, <address>
In open systems environments, do one of the following:
■ Stop the job that is using the tape drive.
■ In a multi-host setting, stop any job that is using the tape drive and then, if
there is a switch unit in use, block the port in that switch to the tape drive.
2. Press the operator panel Menu button.
Online
appears in the display window, indicating the current state of the drive.
3. Press the operator panel Select button to toggle the drive state.
Offline
appears in the display window, indicating a successful transition to the
offline state.
4. Press the Menu button until
Exit Menu?
appears in the display window.
5. Press the Select button to exit the menu system.
Note: If you select
Exit Menu?
, the display alternates between
Offline and the normal message after a cartridge is loaded as a
reminder that the drive is still in the offline state.
To Place the Tape Drive Offline (VOP)
1. Cease all I/O activity from the host.