Hi, This is just to state that I used the SAS LTO firmware upgrade method Douglas suggested (1 year ago) and it worked fine, upgrading an HPE LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 internal SAS tape drive from a .frm / .E file. Best regards, -- Jérôme PS: It took me a while to find a way to get the latest firmware for that drive, so here is some additional info: the Z6ED_019_233.E aka LTT_Ultrium_5-SCSI_Z6ED_STANDALONE.frm firmware is available inside a package not blocked by HPE paywall: https://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-windows/p368283668/v124587/cp031432.exe https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=7271242&swItemId=MTX_afc26488547047b2b55cec874c&swEnvOid=4138#tab4