Excessive Clean messages................................................................................................................ 183
Preparing the tape drive for service........................................................................................................ 183
Powering the device ON and OFF............................................................................................................183
Removing drive canister power......................................................................................................... 183
Restoring drive canister power..........................................................................................................184
End of call.................................................................................................................................................185
Verifying the x...................................................................................................................................185
Setting the device online....................................................................................................................185
Final checks........................................................................................................................................185
Connecting and disconnecting the laptop from the drive...................................................................... 186
Ethernet (laptop) Drive Dump procedures..............................................................................................187
Determining current dump status..................................................................................................... 187
Offloading microcode dumps with the front Ethernet port...............................................................188
Ethernet (laptop) Microcode procedures................................................................................................189
Determining current drive microcode level.......................................................................................189
Updating microcode with the Ethernet port......................................................................................189
Obtaining microcode image with the Ethernet port..........................................................................189
Drive FRU VPD procedures......................................................................................................................190
Displaying the Drive Status page.............................................................................................................191
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitive parts......................................................................................... 192
Cleaning the operator bezel.................................................................................................................... 193
Power problems MAP.............................................................................................................................. 193
Step power 01....................................................................................................................................194
Step power 02....................................................................................................................................194
Step power 03....................................................................................................................................194
Step power 04....................................................................................................................................194
Step power 05....................................................................................................................................194
Step power 06....................................................................................................................................195
Manual cartridge removal........................................................................................................................195
Tape spooled off supply reel..............................................................................................................198
Tape pulled from leader pin or broken near leader pin.....................................................................199
Tape broken in midtape..................................................................................................................... 201
Tape tangled along tape path............................................................................................................ 202
No apparent failure or damage to tape............................................................................................. 203
FMR tape maintenance............................................................................................................................204
Making FMR tape from CE scratch tape.............................................................................................204
Updating FMR tape from the drive.....................................................................................................204
Updating microcode from the FMR tape cartridge............................................................................204
Converting FMR tape to a CE scratch tape........................................................................................ 205
History log examples............................................................................................................................... 205
Microcode EC level history log...........................................................................................................205
Fibre Channel worldwide names history log..................................................................................... 206
Setting Root names............................................................................................................................210
Dump maintenance utilities.................................................................................................................... 210
Offloading the dump to flash memory...............................................................................................211
Offloading Dumps to System i (OS/400)........................................................................................... 212
Offloading dumps to AIX with TAPEUTIL.......................................................................................... 212
Offloading dumps to Linux system with TAPEUTIL...........................................................................213
Offloading dumps to Solaris system with TAPEUTIL.........................................................................214
Offloading dumps to HP-UX system with TAPEUTIL.........................................................................215
Offloading dumps to Windows system with NTUTIL.........................................................................216
Offloading dumps to tape cartridge...................................................................................................216
Microcode maintenance.......................................................................................................................... 217
Updating microcode from System i (OS/400)................................................................................... 217
Updating microcode from AIX with TAPEUTIL..................................................................................218
Updating microcode from Linux with TAPEUTIL............................................................................... 219
Updating microcode from Solaris with TAPEUTIL.............................................................................220
Updating microcode from HP-UX system with TAPEUTIL................................................................ 221
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