Table 4 Troubleshooting Table
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Cleaning
Recurring cleaning message or | ■ | Make sure you are using a DLT vs80 compatible cleaning |
media attention light. |
| cartridge. |
| ■ | Replace the existing cleaning cartridge with a new one. |
| ■ | If the Media Attention LED is cleared using a cleaning cartridge |
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| and then immediately reappears after a particular data |
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| cartridge is reloaded, that data cartridge might be |
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| contaminated. If this occurs, check that the data cartridge can be |
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| read, back up data from the suspect cartridge to another |
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| cartridge, and then discard the suspect cartridge. |
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The Clean Drive LED is | ■ | Indicates that 250 tape motion hours have passed since you last |
illuminated. |
| cleaned the tape drive. |
| ■ | Clean the tape drive. See Cleaning the Tape Drive on page 36 |
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| for instructions. |
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Cannot load the cleaning | ■ | Make sure you are using a DLT vs80 compatible cleaning |
cartridge. |
| cartridge. (See page 36.) |
| ■ | Contact your service representative. |
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Media Compatibility |
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Media format invalid for drive | ■ | You attempted to load incompatible media into the tape drive. |
type. |
| Ensure your media and format is compatible with a DLT vs80 |
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| tape drive. See page 29 for more information. |
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Media is labeled as write | ■ | Media with the DLT 4000 format was loaded into the tape drive. |
protected by the host server, |
| The data is readable, but the media must be bulk erased before |
but restore from tape |
| the tape drive can write to this cartridge. |
successful. |
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