HP StorageWorks Ultrium 3000 SAS Tape Drives Firmware Revision Z5AD release notes (EH957-90942, September 2011)

Description
The release includes updated firmware for Ultrium 3000 (LTO–5) SAS tape drives.
HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools (HP L&TT) must be used to download firmware to the tape
drive.
Drive firmware version Z5AD
Update recommendation Recommended
Supersedes Z3ED
Product models
• HP StorageWorks LTO–5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Internal EH957A
• HP StorageWorks LTO–5 Ultrium 3000 SAS External EH958A
• HP StorageWorks LTO–5 Ultrium 3000 SAS Rack-mount EJ014A
Operating systems
• Operating systems supported by HP StorageWorks Library & Tape Tools. See http://www.hp.com/
support/tapetools.
Languages
• English (American)
• English (International)
New functionality
• New functionality has been added to increase the drive's robustness to variations in media. This
will increase load time.
Enhancements
• 0x3350 errors will no longer be logged to the fault log if they require no corrective action.
• Real Time Clock calculations are more accurate because they use 64-bit code that the hardware
supports.
• Error rate counters are now cleared on a load rather than being cumulative since power-on.
• There are now extended retries if the Cartridge Memory cannot be read.
Fixes
• A performance issue spacing with a particular pattern of records and filemarks has been fixed.
• A poor read performance issue that had been experienced when reading through filemarks on
fast hosts has been fixed.
• The use of adjacent channel information during Spacing/Locating has been enabled to prevent
issues with spacing and locating errors 0x5090/0x5092.
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