Spectra Logic T-Series Spectra T200 User manual

Spectra T200, T380, T680,

AND T950

Drive Replacement Procedure

PN 90970010 Revision A

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A November 2008 Initial release

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Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Tape Drive Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Preparing for Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Ensure ESD Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Gather Tools and Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Continue or Stop Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Identifying the Drive Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Spectra T200, T380, or T680 Drive Identification and Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Spectra T950 Drive Identification and Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Replacing or Installing a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Prepare the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Access the Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Remove the Malfunctioning Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Install the Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Completing the Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connect the Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Test the Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Install the Cover or Secure the Rear Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Add the Drive to a Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Restart Backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Returning a Malfunctioning Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Packaging the Drive for Shipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Shipping RMA Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Contents

Notes

Introduction

Overview

This guide provides instructions for either installing an additional drive or replacing an

existing drive in the Spectra T200, T380, T680, and T950 libraries (the library).

Each drive is mounted on a drive sled which is installed in a drive bay assembly (DBA)

in the back of the library. Each DBA accommodates four full-height drives. The drive

sled includes intelligence that generates a serial number to the drive based on its

location in the library. The location-based serial number remains constant even if the

physical drive is replaced. The new drive retains the generated serial number, so the

replacement is transparent to the backup software.

Note: Most of the figures in this guide show the Spectra T380 library. The

relative locations of the components and the procedures are the same for

the other libraries unless otherwise indicated.The differences are

indicated by library type; for example:

Spectra T200, T380, or T680—items indicated with this text refer

to any one of the three libraries.

Spectra T950—items indicated with this text refer to only this library.

Tape Drive Support

This table shows the tape drives supported by the individual libraries.

Library LTO-1 LTO-2 LTO-3 LTO-4 RXT SAIT SDLT

T200 YYYYYYY

T380 YYYYYNN

T680 YYYYYYY

T950 YYYYYYY

Important

When replacing a drive, the new drive must be the same

“type” as the one you replace.

If the drive to be replaced is the only drive in the partition,

the existing partition will be deleted.

Preparing for Maintenance

Ensure ESD Protection

The repair environment for the library must be free of conditions that could

cause electrostatic discharge (ESD). To protect the library from ESD, follow these

procedures when repairing or testing the library:

Place a static protection mat on the work surface used while removing and

installing library components. Use a 1-megaohm resistor to ground the static

protection mat.

Wear a static protection wrist band whenever you handle library components that

have been removed from their antistatic bags. Connect this wrist band to the static

protection mat or to other suitable ESD grounding.

Keep all components in antistatic bags when not in use.

Gather Tools and Supplies

You must have the following to complete this procedure:

A #2 Phillips screwdriver

A new drive from Spectra Logic

Note: After removing the new drive from its packaging, keep the packaging to

return the old drive to Spectra Logic.

If there are no empty drive bays in your library, you must install a new

DBA to accommodate additional drives. Backups cannot continue while

you install the new DBA and drive(s). Refer to the Spectra T200, T300,

T680, and T950 DBA Installation Instructions for information.

Continue or Stop Backups

Spectra T200, T380, or T680 Use the following guidelines if you are installing or

replacing a drive in a drive bay assembly (DBA) already in the library.

QIP-attach drives – Backups running to all other drives in the library (or

partition) can safely continue while you install a new drive or replace an

existing one.

Direct-attach SCSI drives (Spectra T200, T380, T680) – If multiple direct-

attach SCSI drives are daisy-chained on the same SCSI bus, adding or removing

a drive interrupts communications on the bus. Stop backup operations to all of

the drives in the daisy chain. Spectra Logic recommends shutting down and

powering off the host computer before replacing a drive. The T950 does not

allow direct-attach drive configurations.

Identifying the Drive Location

Direct-attach Fibre Channel drives (Spectra T200, T380, T680) – Backups

running to other drives in the library (or partition) can safely continue while you

install a new drive or replace an existing one, unless the drive you are replacing

is the one exporting the library (that is, providing the robotic control path for

the partition). If the drive you are replacing provides the control path for the

robotics, stop backup operations to the partition. The T950 does not allow

direct-attach drive configurations.

Note: Selecting a drive to provide the robotic control path is part of

configuring a partition. Refer to the Spectra T200, T380, & T680

Library User Guide or the T950 Library User Guide for more

information.

Identifying the Drive Location

Note: If you are installing an additional drive, rather than replacing a drive, skip

to Drive Installation Preparation on page 14.

Your backup software, the library, or both may indicate a drive malfunction. Identify

the problem drive, then check the Drives screen on the library user interface for more

detailed information, including the drive identifier for the malfunctioning drive. Write

down the drive identifier for use in a later section.

Note: Not all drive errors are identified by the library. Your backup software

may also indicate drive problems.

If your library has multiple partitions, use your backup software and the

Partition Settings screen to identify the malfunctioning drive.

Drives are identified in the library’s BlueScale user interface using the format shown in

the following sections. You can also access the back of the library and look for the

drive sled status light that blinks amber (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 The drive sled (SCSI drive sled shown).

Status LED

Drive lock

Spectra T200, T380, or T680 Drive Identification and Location

The user interface uses DBAx/Y-DRVx, where xis a variable and Yis the drive type:

DBAx is the number of the drive bay assembly (DBA) containing the drive; a DBA

can contain up to four drives and one Quad-Interface Processor (QIP).

Yis the drive type (LTO, RXT, and so forth).

DRVx is the number of the drive bay in the DBA, as viewed from the back of the

library.

Examples The two examples below are shown in bold text for reference in Figure 2.

1. If an LTO drive is installed in drive bay 1 of DBA1, its identifier is DBA1/LTO-DRV1.

2. If an RXT drive is installed in drive bay 2 of DBA2, its identifier is DBA2/RXT-DRV2.

Figure 2 Back panel drive locations and their identifiers (T380 shown).

QIP

Drive 4

Drive 3

Drive 1 Drive 2

Drive 4

Drive 3

Drive 1 Drive 2

Drive 4

Drive 3

Drive 1 Drive 2

DBA 3

DBA 2

DBA 1

Example 1

Example 2

Drive bay

opening

This figure shows the relationship

between the DBA number and the

the drive locations used in the

identifier.

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