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Version
87G0
Release Date
18 September 2008
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| 1,825 | CHANGE HISTORY for the IBM LTO3 firmware update | |
| 6,638 | README for the IBM LTO3 firmware update | |
| 1,855,488 | IBM LTO3 firmware update |
Abstract
Download the latest IBM LTO3 Tape Drive Firmware Update for IBM System x
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Change history
Version 87G0
- Fixed mode page 19h - data in mode page 0e 01
- Added LTO2 media Error Recovery Procedure for Tension changes
- Added Read recovery enhancements
- Added Write recovery enhancements
Version 69U2
- Reset condition during Write not handled correctly.
- A condition of nested error recovery procedures resulted in long recovery and ultimately timed out with error.
- The drive may change its own statistics dynamically during read/write operation of worn drive/medium. The possibility existed for the drive to become a marginal reader as a result of this function, thus appearing to read slowly.
- Error on Rewind after Write command is aborted.
- Tape Alert 18 not set correctly when Cartridge Memory is unreadable.
- Cannot detect motor is stopped due to an error, resulting in timeout.
- If Log Sense command is issued during an operation that takes a long time, eg.. Clean, Unload, it may timeout.
- RESET can occur during write at track turn.
- The drive firmware was not expecting a brand new cartridge to be used when making firmware update tape.
- Read Buffer/Cartridge Memory hang when invalid offset value.
- When Error Correction Code is severely stressed an invalid C2 correction could occur resulting in a read permanent error.
- Wrong retry number in Error Recovery Procedure, Unexpected nested retries causes timeout.
- After a parity error, certain counters are not valid and must be ignored. If not a permanent error may result.
- If the drive is Persistent Reserved, and another host issues Allow Medium Removal command, drive may return Reservation Conflict.
- Servo enhancement: Added logic to prevent remote possibility of off-track write.
- Enhanced Cartridge Memory reading reliability.
- Improved wrap turn Error Recovery Procedure.
- Read error from LOCATE command: When a drive receives LOCATE/SPACE request during reading beyond the target dataset of the previous LOCATE/SPACE request, it should stop reading immediately and start the next operation. The drive does not stop reading and results in READ error.
- GEN2 cartridge could not be read on either LTO2 or LTO3 but was readable on the drive which wrote it. Error Recovery Procedure modified to enable reading.
- Under certain rare circumstances, a drive may reset immediately following a Fault Symptom Code 7A00.
- If a write command is issued immediately after a cartridge is loaded, without a Test Unit Ready command, the drive may reset.
- 2nd Filemark lost in error recovery on Space to BOT.
- The erase command may time out if host does not remain attentive. Erase may take 2 hours.
- In rare cases the drive will report a FSC 6000 during a write, or a positioning command after a write, due to an incorrect determination of where the drive is writing.
- Performance problem with Veritas NetBackup: Due to a speed matching problem, the incorrect speed was selected causing this issue.
- Corrected a condition which caused the drive to report Early warning too early.
- Under certain rare instance, the drive will incorrectly report a read perm and error with a FSC 7060.
- Improved the way the drive recovered after the drive failed to put the pin away in the cartridge on an unthread.
- Various fixes to Log Page 14h.
- After a servo error is encountered, the drive would sometime use an incorrect starting position for the Error Recovery Procedure.
- Fix Stuck cartridge due to bad Cartridge Memory write.
- A WORM cartridge initialized by another drive manufacturer might fail with a FSC 7C50.
- Fix Permanent read error reported due to Error on space to End of Data.
- Corrected write permanent error incorrectly reported for a good dataset.
- When a host has a Persistent Reserve on a drive and issues a Reserve or Release to the same drive, the drive will incorrectly return a reservation conflict.
- Enhanced tension control to improve media life.
- Added Send Diagnostics for Read Thermal Sensor.
- Fix rare condition where drive would reset on a permanent write error.
- Drive reports servo errors on write.
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Modified date:
03 January 2023
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ibm1MIGR-65015