User`s guide

Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Library
Maintenance Actions
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Updating Drive Firmware Using Firmware Images
If you are viewing a partition, drive firmware
update operations affect drives that are within
the partition only.
• Before you update drive firmware during this
procedure, make sure that tapes are not
mounted in any of the drives. If tapes are
mounted in drives during the update process,
the library loses knowledge of the cartridge
home cell in storage, resulting in library and
host inventory issues.
• If you load a firmware image onto a drive that
is the same version that is currently running on
the drive, the upgrade will fail.
• If host reservations exist
on drives, remove
prior to initiating drive code changes.
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