Drive Operations Menu
Menu System 4-21
■ Do one of the following actions:
– Press Menu (No) to loop back to the DHCP Y/N submenu.
– Press Select (Yes) to exit and advance to the Firmware Release Level menu
(online), or the Drive Operation menu (offline).
Drive Operations Menu
The Drv Menu is only available when the drive is offline.
Note: Make sure the host has varied the drive offline before you
set the drive offline.
Operator panel window shows
Drv Menu ? (offline only)
. This is the entry point to
the Drive Operations submenus.
Procedure:
■ Do one of the following actions:
– Press Menu (No) to bypass.
– Press Select (Yes) to enter the submenus.
Note: If bypassed, the display advances to the Firmware Release
Level menu.
Code Update Submenu
Operator panel window shows
IPL FromTP
.
IPL From Tape, updates the drive firmware from a code tape that you insert in the
drive.
A normal data cartridge, if present, unloads when this function is activated.
If
CHK xxxx
appears, try a different code tape.
Procedure:
1. Press Menu to bypass or press Select to activate.
2. When
Ld IPL Tp
appears, insert the code tape (write-protected data cartridge that
contains the desired firmware release level image).
Note: After the update completes, the drive unloads the code tape
and initiates an IPL.
3. Remove the unloaded code tape.
Make Dump Tape Submenu
Operator panel window shows
MakeDumpTp
.
Make Dump Tape specially formats and identifies a data cartridge as a dump tape; but,
it does not collect dump logs. Data cartridges used to collect dump logs must first be
formatted this way to accept dump logs.