Update Using The Drive Firmware Update Wizard - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives
3. Click Next. The drive firmware update process begins updating the
If the library is running BlueScale12.07.00.04 or later, the external lights on the
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library change to yellow during the update process.
The Drives screen displays...
4. After the drive firmware update completes, the Staged Firmware
5. After the update is complete, use your storage management software to

Update Using the Drive Firmware Update Wizard

The Drive Firmware Update wizard lets you use one or more firmware
tapes to update multiple drives within a partition, without interrupting
normal library operations in other partitions. The updates are performed
as a background operation whenever the library determines that one of the
drives selected for update is empty.
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selected drives in parallel. A progress screen displays until the process
completes, in approximately 15 to 30 minutes.
when...
The library starts the firmware update process.
The staging status line changes to "Committing".
The drive firmware update process is complete.
The staging drive icon changes back to the drive icon,
and the staging status line disappears.
Update Result screen displays the results of the update process. Click
OK to return to the Drives screen.
Figure 311 Click OK to return to the Drives screen.
restart any backup processes.
 You cannot use a Global Spare drive to replace a failed drive
Notes:
while the library is actively running the Drive Firmware
Update wizard in the partition.
 You cannot use the Drive Firmware Update wizard to update
a TS11xx technology drive.
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