Removing optical volumes

 

You can remove optical volumes from an optical disk cartridge. To remove a volume, select (Remove) in the Opt (Option) column next to the volume you want to remove on the Work with Optical Volumes display. You can then remove an optical volume by physically removing the optical disk cartridge from the optical library dataserver. The Remove Optical Cartridge display appears and prompts you for additional information. Enter the information for the following fields:

• Volume identifier

• Volume description option

• Removed cartridge location

  If the *KEEP option is specified when the volume is removed, the record is kept.

• Media location: Some 399F models support removing media to the bulk magazine. *MAGAZINE can be specified to use this feature if it is available for the device. The magazine can be removed by specifying VOL(*MAGAZINE) on this command.

Because there are two volumes on each optical disk, the options selected on the Remove Optical Cartridge display apply to both volumes. The Remove Cartridge (RMVOPTCTG) command applies to:

• Volumes in directly attached optical media libraries

• Volumes in CD-ROM and DVD devices

• Volumes in virtual optical devices

 

Deleting removed volumes from the optical index database

If you removed (*REMOVED) the volume but saved the volume description information, you can later delete that information by selecting option 9 (Delete). The delete option can also be used if a volume has been marked as being in an offline device. The delete option removes a single volume, and not both volumes of an optical cartridge.

The delete option applies to:

• Removed volumes from optical media libraries

• Volumes in offline optical media libraries

• Volumes in offline optical LAN devices

 

Parent topic:

Using optical volumes