Removable Magnetic Disk Drives
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Removable Magnetic Disk Drives (e.g., Quantum GoVault, ProStor RDX, Dell RD1000, etc.) can be configured as stand-alone drives. All
operations supported by stand-alone drives are supported by such devices.
For more information on how to configure Removable Magnetic Disk Drives and
obtain a list of supported operations, see
Stand-Alone Drives.
Removable magnetic disks are drive enclosure devices that retain a persistent drive
letter in the Operating System, regardless of whether or not a disk media is loaded into the enclosure
(similar to the behavior of floppy drives.).
- For information on MediaAgents that support this device, see the
Devices section
in MediaAgents - Supported Features, Agents and Devices.
- Contact your software provider for a list of Removable Magnetic Disk
Drives (manufacturer, model) that are supported.
- Windows MediaAgents supports the default cartridge format - NTFS.
- For Linux MediaAgents, removable magnetic disk cartridge must be
reformatted to FAT32. See
Formatting
Removable Magnetic Disk Cartridge in FAT32
for instructions.
This feature requires a Feature License to be available in the CommServe® Server.
Review general license requirements included in
License Administration. Also,
View All Licenses provides step-by-step
instructions on how to view the license information.
- For Linux MediaAgents, the disk cartridge is identified only after a Verify Media
operation is performed from the CommCell Console. See
Verify Media. Alternatively, a
backup operation will also detect a newly loaded disk cartridge.
- For Linux MediaAgents, the Auto Stamp Media in Drive
option is not applicable. Media stamping must also be done manually. See
Add Media Identifiers (Stamp
Media).