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a_la_carte's avatar
a_la_carte
Level 5
10 years ago

Cleaning Bar Code (CLNxxx) Not Available, still cleaning media be used ?

Hello Folks,   Environment is as below:- Master Server: NBU clutsered 7.6.0.1 (Windows 2008 R2 64-bit) Media Servers (LDOMs) - Solaris 11 Tape Library :- Oracle Storage tek SL150 with ...
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  • RonCaplinger's avatar
    RonCaplinger
    10 years ago

    Are you saying you don't have a physical barcode lable for your cleaning tape that starts with the letters "CLN"?  If you are using barcodes, I believe all tapes need a barcode label; that's how the robot identifies the tapes as you put them in the Input/Output door and it reads them. 

    If you are sure that it is a cleaning tape, and that it still has available cleans left to be used, you *can* use a TNMxxxxx label, I think.  You will need to set up a new barcode rule that will look at that ONE full barcode and define it as HCLN type.  I think this will work.  Once the tape has been accepted by the robot and you are able to clean the drives, you can delete that barcode rule, as you should never have another tape using that barcode ever again.

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Yasuhisa_Ishika
Level 6
10 years ago

It depends on how SL150 treats barcode labels. Some tape library requires tapes to be labeled with sufficient barcode labels. In such case, tape library does not allow mounting insufficient tapes into drives.

Media type field(last 2  of 8 characters) is also matter. It is better to ask Oracle whether SL150 allows cleaning tapes be labeled with your L6 label.