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Chapter 10 — Using Drive Lifecycle Management
Each button on the Drives screen lets you perform additional operations.
This button...
Drive Traces
Drive Performance
Monitoring
Drive Firmware
Update
Staged Drive
Firmware Update
Remove
Replace
Add
Clean
Detail
Test
Reset
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Collect drive traces for LTO‐5 and later generation drives (see Use the Drive
Traces Button on page 360).
The Drive Traces button is not supported for TS11xx technology
Note:
drives.
Display the drive performance statistics screen (see View Drive Performance
Statistics on page 150).
Note: The Drive Performance Monitoring button only displayed if Drive
Performance Monitoring is enabled (see Enable Drive Performance Monitoring
on page 102).
Use one or more firmware update (code load) tapes stored in the partition's
entry/exit pool to update the firmware for selected drives (see Updating Drive
Firmware on page 422).
This button is replaced by Staged Drive Firmware Update if a drive
Note:
firmware update is staged to one or more drives.
Apply an update that is already staged to the drive (see Apply the Update on
page 435) using one of the following methods:
 Autostaging (see Modify Auto Download Options on page 133)

Manual staging (see Update Using Drive Update through Package Update on
page 429).
Note: This button only displays if a drive update is staged to the drives.
Remove or replace a drive that is already in the library . If a DBA has an empty
drive bay, the Add button powers on a newly installed drive and initializes it in
the library (see Adding or Replacing a Drive on page 445).
Notes:
 These buttons only display on the front panel.
 The Add button only displays if a DBA location does not contain a drive.
Clean the drive using a cleaning tape in an associated cleaning partition. See
Manually Cleaning a Drive on page 419.
Note: The Clean button only displays if the partition to which the drive is
assigned has an associated cleaning partition.
View detailed information about the selected drive (see Viewing and Saving a
Detailed Drive Health Report on page 295).
Use the DLM Drive Test wizard to test a drive (see Using DLM to Test a Drive
on page 382).
Note: The Test button is not available for TS11xx technology drives.
Reset the drive, which power cycles the drive, runs the internal drive
diagnostics, and reinitializes it in the library (see Resetting a Drive on page 354).
Monitoring Drive Health Using DLM
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