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Chapter 13 — Drive Troubleshooting
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Overview. You may occasionally need to reset a drive as part of a firmware
upgrade or for troubleshooting.
Drives can be reset using the Reset button on the Drives screen or using the Power
Important
Drive On/Off utility. This utility should ONLY be run on a drive that is not assigned to
a partition. Do not use the advanced Power Drive on/off utility to reset a drive that
is assigned to a partition. Running this utility on a drive assigned to a partition will
disable the host interface.
User Privilege Requirements. Only a user with superuser or administrator
privileges can use the BlueScale software to reset a drive.
Perform the Reset. The following steps describe how to reset a drive using
the Reset button on the Drives screen.
1. Determine the BlueScale identifier for the drive you want to reset.
2. Log into the library as a user with superuser or administrator
3. Select Configuration > DLM (or Drives) to display the Drives screen.
4. Identify the drive that needs to be reset and click Reset. The library
5. The drive is ready for use.
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Note: Drives are identified according to their physical location in the
library. For example, FR1/DBA2/DRV4 refers to the upper right
drive in DBA2 of frame 1. See Drive Identifiers on page 70 for
information about identifiers.
privileges.
Figure 254 Click Reset on the Drives screen.
power cycles the drive.
When the drive completes its POST and becomes ready, a status screen
displays, showing that the drive was reset.
Note: When the drive resets, the library posts system messages that the
drive disappeared and reappeared.
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