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Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives
Requirements
 The drives to update must be configured in a storage partition.
 To update the firmware of a Global Spare, first substitute the Global
Download the Drive Firmware
If your library has Internet access, you can download the drive firmware
update directly from the Spectra Logic package server. The drive firmware
package is downloaded during the update process, and does not need to
be downloaded beforehand.
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Download the recommended drive firmware from the Spectra Logic
Technical Support portal, and save it to a USB device or a package server.
1. Connect to the Spectra Logic Technical Support portal.
2. Select Downloads > Tape Drive Firmware.
3. On the Tape Drive Firmware page (see Figure 242 on page 426), locate
4. Click the firmware version name in the column labeled Package File
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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 356 for more information).
the appropriate drive firmware with respect to drive type (LTO or
TS11xx), generation (for example, LTO‐7), interface type (for example,
SAS or Fibre), and form factor (full‐height or half‐height).
(For Staging).
 The link in the column labeled Current Firmware Version is for
Notes:
updating the drive firmware using ITDT (Update Using
ITDT on page 426) do not select this file if you are updating
drive firmware using Package Update.
 Select a package ending with the letter "s", which indicates a
digitally signed package.
Updating Drive Firmware
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