Chapter 8. Drive Maintenance Procedures 8-11
11. Press F10 to exit the read dump.
12. Press q to quit tapeutil.
13. Remove the diskette from the diskette driver. The dump diskette created above is
in AIX/UNIX format.
14. Press F10 to exit the Service menu.
Offloading Dumps to Tape Cartridge
The dump icon appears when the dump is available and remains on the screen to
indicate that trace data is stored in the device.
Attention: Trace data is volatile and is lost if you press the Reset pushbutton or
remove power from the drive.
1. Press the Change Mode pushbutton to place the drive in CE Offline mode.
2. Select Dump from the CE Options menu.
3. Select Copy Dump to Tape to copy a dump from dynamic random access
memory (DRAM) to a tape cartridge.
4. Select Write Dump at BOT to copy a dump at the beginning of tape, or select
Write Dump at EOD to copy a dump at the end of the data that is already present
on the tape.
5. At the prompt, load a CE scratch tape, and select Process Loaded Tape.
A screen indicates the status of the copy to medium (Successful Copy or
Unsuccessful Copy).
6. When the dump to tape has completed, contact your next level of support for
further instructions.
The dump icon disappears from the 3592 operator panel when the dump to tape
has completed.
Drive Microcode Maintenance
You can update microcode by using one of the various methods in Table 8-1, shown in
a somewhat descending order of preference.
Prompting for Srce File for Operation on rmt3 located at 00-05-01-30
B00000
Please enter the following fields...
Enter Filename: /dev/rfd0 +/
F1=Help F2=Refresh F3=Cancel F4=List
F5=Reset F7=Commit F10=Exit
Table 8-1. Updating Microcode (in descending order of preference)
To update microcode from: Go to: Approximate elapsed time
Host Documentation for your host system 2 minutes/drive
ITDT “Updating Microcode from Most
Systems using ITDT” on page 8-12
2 minutes/drive
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