Firmware from one drive to another

[mletendre]

I have one IBM LTO 4 drive with firmware code B710 and I want the rest of them to be the same (some are A23xx, some are 97xx, some others as well)

Is there a way for me to make a firmware tape and then load that onto other drives, or use tape tools to do it? I have not been able to so far

I did download b710 from IBM's website but every time I use tape tools to do the microcode download it fails saying invalid firmware.

 

[rclarke250]

What are your LTO's in? 3580? 3584? How are the connected? what is the server they are connected to? What is the OS of the server? A little more information and maybe someone can help you out.

 

[mletendre]

They are in a l180 linrary. Connected to a windows 7 machine for testing.

 

[rclarke250]

So the drives are not in an IBM library? I would contact the manufacturer of the Library , they should have tools to update the firmware through the library.

 

[mletendre]

Its an old STK L180 that we are using for a test, I dont believe they have such a tool and if they did it is not under warranty so I doubt that they will be so inclinded to pass that along.

 

[mletendre]

I know the IBM Tale and Library tools can be used to update firmware, and the older (1.2 I believe, CLI) has a "microcode dump" but it makes a dump file but not a copy of the Microcode firmware

 

[rclarke250]

You have to access each drive directly, and not through the library. If the drives have a serial port, you could update the firmware that way, it's been years since I've had to do it that way.