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Asset ID: 1-72-1014755.1
Update Date:2011-05-25
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Solution Type  Problem Resolution Sure

Solution  1014755.1 :   SL8500 - Initialized To An Incorrect Length  


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  • Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System
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Applies to:

Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System
All Platforms
Checked for relevance on 25-May-2011.

Symptoms

Initialization failed
Initialization failure during install
Incorrect rail length being reported

Changes

{CHANGE}

Cause

{CAUSE}

Solution

Resolution
Replace defective Handbot

Additional Information
SL8500-Initialized To An Incorrect Length

 

Local support team reported during an SL8500 installation the library attempted to initialize incorrectly as a short library.
The field team was installing a 3_SEM library and the library attempted to initialize as a standard size library.

Engineering made a change at code level 3.11C to address a problem with short rail initialization which caused all the rails to be reconfigured as a short library. This typically occurred if the HandBot hit an obstruction on the rail during the initialization. Starting at 3.11C all HandBots need to agree on the rail length. In this case one HandBot was defective so all 4 HandBots did not agree on the length and the length was established by the previously configured size. Manufacturing tests the libraries with no extensions and so the previously configured size was no extensions.

If the defective bot had been replaced, all the HandBots would then agree on a length and the library would have initialized correctly. Another option would be to move one of the functional HandBots to the rail of the originally defective bot.




Incorrect rail length, SL8500, 3.11c, Rail length, Short rail initialization, New install, audited
Previously Published As STKKB80329

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