Library Overview
26 ESL E-Series Tape Library User’s Guide
Make it a practice to visually inspect your tape cartridges when loading or
removing them from your tape library. Taking a few minutes to check the
condition of your cartridges will lower the risk of repeated failures and help
ensure uninterrupted backup.
Caution: Always discard damaged tape cartridges. If a defective tape
cartridge is loaded into a tape drive it may damage the drive, potentially
requiring drive replacement.
Note: For information on ordering tape cartridges and bar code labels, refer to the
ordering sheet that shipped with your library.
Load ports and magazines
The load ports are mechanical devices in the front panel of the library that enable
you to import or export tape cartridges to and from the library via three tape
cartridge magazines without interrupting library operations.
There are 2 tape cartridge magazines in the left load port, and 4 in the right (see
Figure 6). The number of tape cartridges in these magazines differs between the
SDLT and LTO libraries. Table 3 lists LTO slot count for various configurations;
Table 4 lists SDLT slot count.
