Firmware upgrades for dds-2 & dds-3 tape drives

[Gregory Heil]

I have loaded the tape tools (ltt 3.4), and have successfully upgraded a DLT and an Ultrium.

I do not seem to be able to find any firmware files for dds-2 (C1533A) or the dds-3 (C1537A) internal drives that I have in a bunch of D's.

Are these devices upgradable? if so, where can I find the ltt compatable firmware files?

Thanks

Greg

[David Ruska]

Yes, the firmware should be updatable using LTT.

Within LTT, you can use Files -> Get files from web to download the firmware files (assuming your system is web connected).

[David Ruska · Accepted solution]

BTW, you can also FTP the files from here:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/information_storage/software/ltt/firmware/

The names are pretty straight forward.

e.g. LTT_C1533A_A709.frm

Note, there are some devices that have more than one hardware variant (e.g. there are 2 different generations of DDS3 drives). If the firmware file does not match the device hardware, LTT will indicate this as 'wrong personality', or 'incorrect prefix'.

[Gregory Heil]

Thanks David. That did the trick!