1. Release Notes
  2. Release Notes for FRS_8.75

1 Release Notes for FRS_8.75

The following provides release information for Oracle’s StorageTek SL8500 library firmware version FRS_8.75.

Enhancements

  • Added support for LTO-9.
  • Added a device watchdog on the drive controller.
  • Increased the load and unload timeouts to 16.5 minutes to cover the extended timeouts for IBM LTO-7+ drives per IBM specification.
  • For the CLI, drive stateSave <drive address> is now available for the user admin.
  • The SNMP MIB version is now 2.21 which corrected OIDs slDriveHealthStatusEnum and slLibMibVer.

Fixes

  • Corrected handing of health check and last communication setting to prevent 3997’s (message queue size) with the HBT card.
  • Serialized handling of multiple announces of the same drive to prevent drive initialization and robot issues.
  • Corrected how the drive controller handles the watchdog when requests are received for multiple drives.
  • The library now re-enables the drive ports for all media validation load failures.
  • Stopped sending duplicate announce IBM drive resets after a drive firmware update.
  • The drive tray now sends fan2 presence and status to the library controller for all drive trays.
  • Modified code to mitigate HBT2 cards clock drift.
  • Corrected robot range of travel for bulk CAP libraries.

Library Support of Tape Calibration

IMPORTANT: IBM has stated that the calibration of a new L9 cartridge can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours to complete.

With the FRS_8.75 code release, the library supports longer load times. However, tape calibration well exceeds these load times. Thus, library support has been modified to better handle tape calibration.