The BS2000 device management system (NDM) selects the device on which an MTC is to be mounted. NDM selects a device which supports the volume type of the cartridge .
All devices which are to be controlled by a ROBAR-SV instance in an archive system are defined in the interface-specific configuration file of ROBAR-SV when ROBAR-SV is configured (see "Interface-specific ROBAR-SV configuration files").
The storage location management facility as described in section “Storage locationmanagement” guarantees smooth operation. This means in particular that the BS2000 device management system (NDM) must be made aware of which device belongs to which storage location and that tape management must be performed by MAREN.
If all devices and data volumes have been correctly assigned to the storage locations, the cartridges are also mounted on the device selected by NDM, even if there are a number of archives containing devices of the same type.