Update Using Drive Update Through Package Update - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives
Using Drive Update through Package Update
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Your library must either be under warranty or you must have a current service
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contract with Spectra Logic Technical Support before you can update the drive
firmware using Package Update. The BlueScale Software Service key associated
with your service contract must be entered into the System Configuration screen
before you can use Package Update.
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If Auto Download is configured (see Configure a Package Server on page 135)
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and a system message indicates that the library downloaded a new drive
firmware package, use Apply the Update on page 486 to install the firmware.
Drive firmware is downloaded and staged to each drive as a background
process. The firmware staging process takes up to 8 hours for LTO ‐5 and
later generations drives, and up to 16 hours for TS11xx technology drives.
Backups can continue during this process. This does not affect library
operation. The update is then applied to all selected drives in parallel. This
takes between 15 and 30 minutes, during which time the drives must be
empty and idle.
Requirements
 The library must be running BlueScale12.4.1 or later generation
 The drives must be LTO‐5 and later generation drives or TS11xx
 The drives to update must be configured in a storage partition.
 To update the firmware of a Global Spare, first substitute the Global
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If you have questions about your service agreement, contact Technical Support
(see Contacting Spectra Logic on page
For instructions on how to renew and enter your BlueScale Software Support
key, refer to Renewing the BlueScale Software Support Key on page
software.
technology drives.
Note: Contact Technical Support before using this wizard to update
LTO‐4 drives. These drives must remain empty and idle during
the entire update, which may take up to 8 hours per drive.
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 404 for more information).

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