Turning an IBM lto6 sas HH drive from library to standalone, how?

Solution 1:

Thank you Kevin. I will try that in the near future. I have found a stop gap solution that I find usable. The drive I have came with an autoloader, wich is very loud and unpractical for my needs. I have found that disconnecting the robot, the library does not block the drive from working. The only thing the drive needs to work, is to see the small lib logic board attached to it. So I took the robot out, the magazine out, cut the autoloader by half the deep (this thing is 85cm deep) and placed the drive at the front, where the magazine used to slide in. Its now a neat 1u rack lto 6 unit that is ready to take a newer library drive (be it 7 or 8) and work right away without the need to hack it. The only problem is that you need to use itdt or the lib´s web interface to load or unload a tape. Not a big deal. An autoloader with a broken robot is as cheap as a sas case for a standalone drive, so if anyone is handy with a saw but not so with a command line, this may be your ticket. Will share pictures when finished. Would like to try your method but I am not sure if I should, being that I have a perfectly fine drive now...