Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives Updating Drive Firmware
December 2019 User Guide—Spectra T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
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6. Click Start Update to begin the background operation to update the
selected drives. The Drive Firmware Update screen refreshes to show
that the update operation is running.
After each drive update, the library posts a system message indicating
whether or not the update was successful.
Note: Once the update process begins, you cannot start any additional
Drive Firmware Update operations until the currently running
process either completes or is stopped.
7. If you need to change the library configuration, modify a partition, or
make other changes that are restricted while background operations are
running, click Stop Update. The library completes any updates that are
currently in progress and then returns the firmware tape to the magazine.
8. Export the firmware update tape from the library (see Exporting or
Exchanging Magazines and Cartridges on page 231) and store it for
future use.
9. Use your storage management software to restart backup processes.
Update Using the Update Drive Firmware Utility
The Update Drive Firmware utility uses a firmware tape to update a single
drive or all of the drives in a single partition.
Note: You cannot use the Update Drive Firmware Utility to update a
TS11xx technology drive.
Requirements
The drives to be updated must be configured in a storage partition.
The firmware update tape must be in a magazine stored in the storage
partition’s entry/exit pool.
Note: The partition must have entry/exit chambers configured to use
this wizard.
The drives are updated one partition at a time.
To update the firmware of a Global Spare, first substitute the Global
Spare drive for a drive assigned to a partition. After the Global Spare
drive completes the firmware update process, it can be removed from
the partition and returned to the pool of spare drives (see Use the
Global Spare Drive on page 403 for more information).
Figure 308 Drive Firmware Update screen showing an
update running.
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