How Do I Upgrade Firmware; How Do I Clean A Drive - ADIC Scalar 24 Installation And Operation Manual

Scalar 24

How do I upgrade firmware?

Your Scalar 24 contains firmware for the main controller application, robotics, RMU, drives, main
controller boot code, and the robotics boot code. For information about viewing the firmware
version, see Display Firmware Version
You can find drive and library firmware upgrades on the ADIC website at www.adic.com. There are
four ways that you can upgrade your firmware:
Firmware Upgrade Tape
Serial Port
RMU
AMC

How do I clean a drive?

There are three ways to clean a drive on your Scalar 24: manually, using autoclean, and host
controlled.
• For information about manually cleaning the drive, see
• For information about autoclean, see
• Host controlled allows a host application to control drive cleaning. The cleaning tapes are
managed by the host application, instead of your Scalar 24.
Frequently Ask Questions
on page 8-55.
You can upgrade the library, which includes the main controller
application and robotics, and drive firmware using a Firmware
Upgrade (FUP) tape. For more information, see
Firmware on page 8-66.
You can upgrade the library firmware using the serial port.
When you go to the ADIC website (www.adic.com) to
download the firmware, instructions are provided on how to
use the serial port to perform the upgrade.
If you have an RMU installed, you can upgrade the library,
RMU, and drive firmware from the Firmware tab of the RMU
interface. For more information, see
Example on page 7-21.
If you have an ADIC Management Console (AMC) installed,
you can upgrade SNC firmware from the AMC. For more
information, refer to your
Configure Autoclean
Load
Firmware Dialog
AMC User's Guide.
Clean Drive on page 8-65.
on page 8-30.
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