Spectra TFinity User Manual page 474

Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives
2. Select Configuration > DLM (or Drives) to view a list of all the drives
3. For each drive, make a note of the following information:
4. For each drive, click Detail to view information about the current status
5. Make a note of the firmware version the drive is currently using.
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currently installed in the library.
Figure 301 Determine the drive type, generation, and interface.
Note: If the library contains many drives, it may be easier to use the
drivelist.xml?action=list command to obtain this
information. See the Spectra Tape Libraries XML Command
Reference for more information.
 Drive type and generation — LTO‐4 and later generation drives are
listed as IBM Ultrium‐TDn, where n is the generation. TS11xx
technology drives are listed as IBM 3592Enn, where nn=07 indicates
TS1140 technology, nn=08 indicates TS1150 technology, nn=55
indicates TS1155 technology, and nn=60 indicates TS1160
technology.
 Interface — Fibre Channel as shown in both the Drive Type field
(Fibre) and in the Drive Identifier field (fLTO or fTS11xx)
of the selected drive, including its firmware version.
Figure 302 Locate the drive firmware version on the Drive
Details screen.
The drive type, generation,
and interface
The drive firmware version
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The drive
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