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Configure Your Library Tape Drives Manually

You can configure the library tape drives either manually, or by using the wizard. This section gives you the procedure to configure the tape drives manually. Select Manual configuration if your StorageTek ACSLS library contains drives that use different types of media or if other libraries or stand-alone tape drives are present in your environment.

To configure the library tape drives manually

1. Select the manual library configuration method.
2. Click Next.

   The Manual Configuration dialog displays a list of the tape drives that are attached to the Arcserve Backup server.

3. Select a tape drive to be configured.
4. Click Configure to enter the parameters of the selected tape drive.

   The Edit drive parameters dialog opens.

5. Enter the ACS, LSM, Panel, and ID of the tape drive in the Edit drive parameters dialog.
6. Click OK.

   The Edit drive parameters closes and a green tick mark appears for each configured tape drive.

7. Repeat the manual configuration for each tape drive.
8. Click Next to verify the configuration information and to initialize the tape drives.

   The Volume Configuration dialog opens showing a list of unassigned tape volumes.