Wizard Uses Device Serialization

Many, but not all, robots and drives support device serialization. Device serialization is a firmware feature that allows device identification and configuration. If the device supports serialization, the following actions occur when the Device Configuration wizard queries the devices in your configuration. This information is used by the wizard to construct your configuration.

• Each robot and drive found in the configuration returns a unique serial number.
• For any robots in the configuration, an additional command is issued to the robot. The robot returns the number of drives and the serial number for each of the drives contained in the robot. This information is used by the wizard to determine the correct drive number for each drive in the robot.

Since device serialization is a relatively new capability for some devices, you may need to ask your hardware vendor for newer firmware that returns serial numbers. Even with the proper firmware, some devices require the vendor to perform another action to enable serialization for the device.

If you know that the devices that you are adding do not support serialization, make sure that you follow the maximum configuration limits allowed.

The greater the number of drives and robots in your configuration that do not support serialization, the greater the chance of having configuration problems using this wizard.