Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives Updating Drive Firmware
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2. Select Configuration > DLM (or Drives) to view a list of all the drives
currently installed in the library.
3. For each drive, make a note of the following information:
Note: If the library contains many drives, it may be easier to use the
drivelist.xml?action=list command to obtain this
information. See the Spectra Tape Libraries XML Command
Reference for more information.
Drive type and generation — LTO-4 and later generation drives are
listed as IBM Ultrium-TDn, where n is the generation. TS11xx
technology drives are listed as IBM 3592Enn, where nn=07 indicates
TS1140 technology, nn=08 indicates TS1150 technology, nn=55
indicates TS1155 technology, and nn=60 indicates TS1160
technology.
Form factor — Full-height or half-height
Interface — Shown in both the Drive Type field and in the Drive
Identifier field (f for Fibre Channel, s for SAS, and blank for SCSI).
Figure 294 Determine the drive type, generation, and
interface.
The drive
identifier
The drive type, generation,
and interface