Yes, the SL-500 does offer a front panel, optional at extra cost. If you
have it, you can use it to move tapes around between the CAP, any drive and
any slot. As noted previously, you can also do that via the StreamLine
console and via the sjimm command.
My personal opinion:
The SL-500's major strength is its compactness. STK (I think the design was
finalized before the Sun takeover) managed to fit an amazing number of
slots, drives and CAP ports into a one-rack footprint.
Its major drawback is its speed, or lack thereof. A fully loaded, five
module SL-500 takes about 30 minutes from reset to ready, vs. at most three
minutes for the L-series. That translates into at least an extra half hour
of downtime any time the door has to be opened for service.
When you open the CAP, you must open all the module CAPs; you can't select
just one or two. And after you close the CAPs it takes a very long time --
measured in minutes, not seconds as in the L-series -- before a fully-loaded
SL-500 is ready. Sun/STK's suggested workaround is to reconfigure some of
the CAP ports as regular slots.
Lesser -- but still major -- complaints include the lack of power switches
on the drives (you have to physically slide them out to power cycle them)
and the fact that the SLConsole software has to be installed on your PC;
it's not accessible via a browser.
Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:04:34 -0000, Bob Flynn <Bob.Flynn AT S3GROUP DOT COM>
wrote:
>We have a storagetek SL500, By default, there is no panel. You can
>however query the contents and move them around outside of networker,
>the commands are;
>
>
>
>If you need to move tapes in the autoloader outside of legato, i.e.
>
>* rescan tapes back into legato or
>* use tape drives for backup outside of legato.
>
>The following commands are useful;
>
>1. See current status of jukebox
>
>sjirdtag [email protected]
>where [email protected] is the SCSI location of the jukebox, got from ;
>
>[sroot@mars bobf]# inquire
>
>[email protected]:HP Ultrium 2-SCSI F462|Tape, /dev/sg0
>
> S/N: HUP6H01B3T
> ATNN:HP Ultrium 2-SCSI
>HUP6H01B3T
>
> WWNN:50060B0000C1580F
>
>[email protected]:STK SL500 1092|Autochanger (Jukebox), /dev/sg1
>
> S/N: 522000000495
>
>[email protected]:HP Ultrium 2-SCSI F462|Tape, /dev/nst1
>
> S/N: HUL5A02524
> ATNN:HP Ultrium 2-SCSI
>HUL5A025
>
>24
>
> WWNN:50060B00002BB6FC
>
>[email protected]:MegaRAIDLD 0 RAID1 69G516A|Disk, /dev/sg3
>[email protected]:MegaRAIDLD 1 RAID5 279G516A|Disk, /dev/sg4
>[email protected]:PE/PV 1x2 SCSI BP 1.0 |Processor, /dev/sg5
>[email protected]:PE/PV 1x8 SCSI BP 1.0 |Processor, /dev/sg6
>[email protected]:STK BladeCtlr B210 0612|Disk, /dev/sg7
>
> S/N: 1T50870053
>
>WWNN:
>
>600A0B8000172ED4000000034346A242 [email protected]:STK BladeCtlr B210
>0612|Disk, /dev/sg8
>
> S/N: 1T50870053
>
>WWNN:600A0B800017DBAB000000044346A22F
>
>[email protected]:STK BladeCtlr B210 0612|Disk, /dev/sg11
>
> S/N: 1T50765192
>
>WWNN:600A0B8000172ED4000000034346A242
>
>[email protected]:STK BladeCtlr B210 0612|Disk, /dev/sg12
>
> S/N: 1T50765192
>
>WWNN:600A0B800017DBAB000000044346A22F
>
>
>
>2. Move tapes in jukebox.
>
>sjimm [email protected] slot 17 drive 1
>
>this does the following. Moves tape from slot 17 into drive 1, where
>drive 1 and slot 17 contents can be queried via sjirdtag [email protected]
>
>
>
>To see the actual status, try;
>
>
>
>sjirdtag [email protected]
>Tag Data for [email protected], Element Type DATA TRANSPORT:
> Elem[001]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW774>
> Elem[002]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
>Tag Data for [email protected], Element Type STORAGE:
> Elem[001]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[002]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[003]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW753>
> Elem[004]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW798>
>Elem[005]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW797>
> Elem[006]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[007]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[008]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW796>
> Elem[009]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW758>
> Elem[010]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW757>
> Elem[011]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[012]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[013]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW756>
> Elem[014]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<000027>
> Elem[015]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<000011>
> Elem[016]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[017]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 med_pres=1 med_side=0
> VolumeTag=<NWW738>
> Elem[018]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[019]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[020]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[021]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[022]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[023]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[024]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[025]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[026]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[027]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[028]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[029]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
> Elem[030]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
>Tag Data for [email protected], Element Type MEDIA TRANSPORT:
> Elem[001]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 med_pres=0 med_side=0
>Tag Data for [email protected], Element Type IMPORT/EXPORT:
> Elem[001]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1
>full=0 im
>p_exp=0
> Elem[002]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1
>full=0 im
>p_exp=0
> Elem[003]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1
>full=0 im
>p_exp=0
> Elem[004]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1
>full=0 im
>p_exp=0
> Elem[005]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1
>full=0 im
>p_exp=0
>
>
>
>This directly queries the jukebox and reports contents.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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