Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives Updating Drive Firmware
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10. ClickBegin Staging.ThePackageUpdateResultsscreendisplays.
Alldrivesthatrequireanupdatebeginstagingautomatically.Thiscan
takeupto8hoursforLTOdrivesandupto16hoursforTS11x0
technologydrives.
Notes: Stagingonlypreparesthedrivefortheupdateprocess.After
stagingiscomplete,youcanchoosewhichdrivestoupdate
in
Step2onpage482.
TheremaybeafewminutesofdelaybeforethePackage
UpdateResultsscreendisplays.
11. ClickFinished onthePackageUpdateResultsscreen.Thefirmware
stagingrunsinthebackground,allowingthelibrarytoperformother
tasks.
TheDrivesscreendisplaysthestagingstatuswhiletheprocessisactive.
12. Whenthestagingprocesscompletes,asystemmessagedisplays.
Note: Ifthereareanyfailuresinstagingthefirmwaretothedrives,a
systemmessageinformsyouofthefailure.Followtheremedy
instructionsonthesystemmessageandthenresetthedriveto
restartthestagingprocess.
Figure 307 The Package Update Results screen.
The Drives screen displays... when...
Thedrivefirmwareisstagingtothedrive.Thedrive
iconchangestothestagingdrive icon, andthestaging
statuslinedisplays.
Note: AGlobalSpareicondoesnotchangetothe
DriveStagingiconwhilefirmwareisstagingtoit.
However,thestagingstatuslinedisplays.
Thedrivefirmwareisfinishedstagingtothedrive,and
isavailabletobeusedtoupdatethedrive.