Drive Status
After completion of the drive POST and initialization, each drive will be in one of the four states listed in the following table:
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1. | No cartridge is present | A. The Tape in Use LED turns OFF. |
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| B. The Operate Handle LED turns ON. |
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| C. The handle is unlatched. |
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| D. The drive beeps momentarily. |
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2. A cartridge is present and the handle | The drive loads the cartridge. When the Tape in Use LED stops | |
| is closed. | blinking and stays ON, the tape’s actual density lights. For |
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| example, if the actual tape density is 2.6, then the LED turns ON |
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| next to the 2.6 label. When the Density Override LED blinks, |
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| you can select a density. The drive is ready for use. |
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3. A cartridge is present, but the handle | The Tape in Use LED turns OFF. The Operate Handle LED | |
| is open. | flashes. The Scalar Library will close the handle and the drive will |
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| load the cartridge. When the Tape in Use LED stops blinking and |
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| stays ON, the tape’s actual density lights. For example, if the actual |
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| tape density is 2.6, then the LED turns ON next to the 2.6 label. |
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| When the Density Override LED blinks, you can select a density. |
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| The drive is ready for use. |
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4. | The drive detects an error condition. | Then all right or left side LEDs blink repeatedly. You may try to |
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| unload the tape and reinitialize the drive by pressing the Unload |
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| key or turn power OFF and then ON again. The right or left side |
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| LEDs stop blinking and the drive tries to reinitialize. The LEDs |
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| turn ON steadily again and then turn OFF if the test succeeds. |
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The drive POST completes in about 13 seconds on each drive, and the drives will respond normally to all commands. However, it may take longer for the media to become ready.
34 | Operation and Maintenance |
