Chapter 9 Running Your Library
About Tape Drive Operations
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The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the Web client, select
Tools > Drive Operations > Clean a tape
drive
.
• From the operator panel, select
Tools > Drive Mgmt > Clean drive.
About Tape Drive Operations
You can perform the following tape drive operations:
• Upgrade tape drive firmware using a firmware image file. For more
information, see Using an Image File to Upgrade Tape Drive
Firmware on page 286.
• Retrieve tape drive logs. Tape drive logs can be retrieved from any
tape drive installed in the library. For more information, see
Retrieving Tape Drive Logs
on page 501.
• Retrieve tape drive sled logs. Tape drive sled logs can be retrieved
from any sled installed in the library. For more information, see
Retrieving Tape Drive Sled Logs
on page 502.
• Clean tape drives. Tape drive can be cleaned manually at any time.
For more information, see About Cleaning Tape Drives
on page 258.
• Upload/remove tape drive firmware for autoleveling. Available only
for FC tape drives connected to an FC I/O blade. For more
information, see Autoleveling Tape Drive Firmware
on page 287.
• Reset tape drives. Resetting a tape drive power cycles the tape drive
while the tape drive remains in the drive sled in the library. For more
information, see Drive Reset
on page 520.
• Force data path failover. For use with a Storage Networking license
and HP LTO-5 tape drives. See Forcing Data Path Failover
on
page 161.
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