Idling a drive stops any archiving or staging activity that is in process. You might idle drives in a library if you wanted to manually manipulate cartridges in a library without disturbing archiving or staging operations.
The Tape Library Summary page is displayed.
The Library and Drive Details page is displayed.
To restart archiving again after idling a drive, click Restart in the Archiving section of the Activity Management page. For more information, see How to Control Global Archiving Activity.