> No HA here - could barely afford the upgrade. Besides, I though library > firmware was IBM's responsibility? My drives are fairly current and will > upgrade to the latest, just to be sure.
You can upgrade the library and drive firmware yourself. For the library, you download the file from IBM to your pc. Then through the web gui, you run library firmware upgrade. It's a simple procedure where you point to the firmware file, and it upgrade the library. Takes about 1hr. The library is offline during this process. For Drives, you download the latest firmware file to your pc. Then through the GUI you tell it to upgrade drives. You can upgrade all drives at once, or individually one at a time. THere are a couple options for how to install/activate the code. The easiest way is to tell the library to load, then activate it when the next time the drive is empty. At that point the library power cycles the drive. This works for all except the drives that are defined for control paths. Those you need to powercycle yourself at some point. You can certainly have IBM do it, but sometimes it's just easier yourself. Rick ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
