User`s guide

Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library
Maintenance Actions
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You can use the Update Drive Firmware command from the Tools menu
to update drive brick firmware on one or more drives by using either
update tapes or drive firmware images that you have downloaded to the
library. This section includes the following subsections:
• Accessing the Update Drive Firmware Dialog Box on page 399.
• Downloading New Drive Firmware on page 401
• Updating Drive Firmware Using Firmware Images on page 403
• Updating Drive Firmware Using Update Tapes on page 406
Accessing the Update Drive Firmware Dialog Box 6
1 Log on as service.
2 You can access the Update Drive Firmware dialog box while viewing
either the physical library or a partition. From the View menu, click
the name of the physical library or the appropriate partition.
3 Click Tools > Update Drive Firmware.
If the physical library or the partition you are viewing is not offline,
you receive a message that asks you whether you want to take it
offline.
4 Click Yes.
Note
Before performing a firmware upgrade, we
recommend that you shut down and restart the
library.
CAUTION
If you are viewing a partition, drive firmware
update operations affect drives that are within
the partition only.