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Take a tape drive offline

Availability: This command is available to cluster administrators at the admin privilege level.

Description

This command takes the specified tape drive offline.

Parameters

-node {<nodename>|local} - Node

Use this parameter to specify the node to which the tape drive is attached.

{ -name <text> - Tape Drive Device Name

Use this parameter to specify the device name of the tape drive that needs to be taken offline. The format of the device -name name includes a prefix to specify how the tape cartridge is handled and a suffix to describe the density of the tape. The prefix suggests 'r', 'nr' or 'ur' for rewind, no rewind, or unload/reload and a suffix shows density of 'l', 'm', 'h' or 'a'. For example, a tape device name for this operation might have the form "nrst8m" were 'nr' is the 'no rewind' prefix, 'st8' is the alias-name and 'm' is the tape density. You can use the 'storage tape show -device-names' command to find more information about device names of tape drives attached to a node.

| -device-id <text> - Tape Drive Device ID }

Use this parameter to specify the device ID of the tape drive that needs to be taken offline.

Examples

The following example takes the tape drive with device name 'nrst8m' offline. This tape drive is attached to cluster1-01.

cluster1::> storage tape offline -node cluster1-01 -name nrst8m