SL3000/SL8500 - Drive Tray Serial Number Format

Asset ID:	1-71-1670971.1
Update Date:	2017-05-18
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Solution 1670971.1 : SL3000/SL8500 - Drive Tray Serial Number Format

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek 9840 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
LTO Tape Drive - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

SL3000/SL8500 - Drive Tray Serial Number Format

Solution

The new drive tray serial number format is a total of 18 characters with a '+' in the 8th position. The 10 characters after the '+' will be unique.

Manually importing drive tray serial numbers via SLC is supported starting at code SL3000 (4.00+) and SL8500 (8.31+). They only support alpha numeric characters currently.

The new 18 character drive tray serial number format is supported at SL3000 code 4.31 & SLC_6.51 or greater and the SL8500 support is scheduled for 8.50 & SLC_6.60 or greater which is tentatively scheduled for 8/12/2015.

Example of new drive tray label and new drive tray serial number format:

18 character drive tray serial number format:

SN Format = VVVVVV = Vendor Code (Flex =464970), F = Factory Code (G), +, YYWW = Year Year Week Week, II = Indicator (Column E of the Data Matrix), SSSS = Rolling SN

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