RE: How to upgrade firmware on a 3573-L2U tape drive

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <scott.ingvaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And then you can take the spacer out of the left magazine and use all
the slots.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Midwest Region Data Center
Fiserv.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Jones [mailto:chianime@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:31 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: How to upgrade firmware on a 3573-L2U tape drive

On the FTP page, the 73P5 though 89B2 entries are various versions of
tape drive firmwares.  The L3 & L4 indicate LTO3 or 4.  The next letter
is the connect type (F=Fibre, S=SCSI, A=SAS).  If there's an H after
that letter, that's firmware for a half-height drive.  So if you have a
Fibre LTO4 that isn't half-height, the latest firmware would be 89B2L4F.
Get the tar or zip version; whichever is appropriate for you.  Tar is
for Unix/AIX.

After the firmware has been applied, get the Common_730.zip for the
library firmware.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Given this:
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1158&context=STCMML7&dc=D
> B500&uid=ssg1S1003007&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en
>
> Serial Number  L2U78A8596
> Product ID  3573-TL
> Currently Installed Library Firmware  1.70 / 1.66e Bootcode Firmware 
> Revision  0.50
>
> and
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/TS3200/
>
> How do I pick which file to use to upgrade the firmware?
>
> Rob Berendt
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