LED Indicators
The Operator's Panel includes four LED indicators that provide a variety of information as detailed in the following table:
Table 2 LEDs
LED | Color | Description |
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Ready/Activity | Green | Illuminated when power is on. Blinking whenever there is |
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| tape drive or autoloader robotics activity. |
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Clean Drive | Amber | Illuminated when the tape drive needs to be cleaned. |
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| Indicates that 250 tape motion hours have passed since |
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| the last cleaning. The LED turns off when cleaning is |
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| successfully completed. See Cleaning the Tape Drive on |
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| page 36. |
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Media Attention | Amber | Illuminated if a |
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| offending cartridge will also show a “!” in the cartridge |
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| inventory display for the corresponding slot. |
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| This condition can be the result of: |
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| ■ faulty or improperly degaussed media |
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| ■ media that has been previously written in an invalid |
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| format such as DLT 7000 or DLT 8000 |
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| ■ dirty read/write heads in the tape drive |
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| ■ an invalid cartridge (DLTtape III or |
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| inserted |
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| If these symptoms occur on multiple known good |
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| cartridges, consider cleaning the tape drive. See Cleaning |
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| the Tape Drive on page 36. If a particular cartridge |
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| causes these symptoms repeatedly, that cartridge may be |
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| defective or invalid, and should be discarded. |
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Error | Red | Illuminated if an unrecoverable tape drive or autoloader |
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| error occurs. A corresponding error message appears on |
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| the LCD screen. For more information, see Diagnostics and |
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| Troubleshooting on page 51. |
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