View The Firmware Release Level; Place The Drive Offline - Oracle StorageTek T9840 User Manual

Menu System Tasks
5. Press either the Menu or Select switch until Exit CFG ? appears in the
display window.
6. Press either the Select switch (Yes) to exit the submenu or the Menu switch (No)
to repeat the view configuration sequence.
7. Press the Menu switch until Exit Menu? appears in the display window.
8. Press either the Select switch (Yes) to exit the menu system or the Menu switch
(No) to return to the online/offline selection menu.

▼ View the Firmware Release Level

1. Press the Menu switch to enter the menu system.
2. Press the Menu switch until a number in the form of Rx.yy.zzzc appears in the
display.
Where:
3. Press the Menu switch repeatedly until Exit Menu? appears in the display
window.
4. Press either the Select switch to exit the menu system or press the Menu switch
to repeat the Online/Offline selection.

▼ Place the Drive Offline

To change the drive state to offline:
1. Stop all I/O activity from the host.
In mainframe environments, set the tape drive offline for all host paths to the tape
drive by using one of the following Vary commands:
• MVS: V <address> offline
• VM: Vary off, <address>
In open systems environments, do one of the following:
• Stop the job that is using that tape drive.
• In a multi-host setting, stop any job that is using the tape drive and then, if
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x: the major revision level
yy: the minor revision level
zzz: the integration level
c: the channel type with the following values for various channel types:
f: Fibre Channel
s: SCSI
e: ESCON/FICON (3490 image)
m: ESCON/FICON (3590 image)
there is a switch unit in use, block (disable) the port in that switch to that tape
drive.
December 2012