HP Ultrium tape drive 960i manual Understanding the LEDs, LEDs during self-test

Understanding the LEDs

LEDs during self-test

Ultrium 960 and 460

Ultrium 230

Your Ultrium tape drive has four LEDs (light emitting diodes) on the front panel, which indicate drive status, and two LEDs on the rear panel. These LEDs provide useful troubleshooting information.

The tape drive performs a power on self-test whenever power is applied or the drive is reset. The test takes about 5 seconds. The LED sequence for each drive is described in the following table.

Ultrium 960 and 460		Ultrium 230
1 The green Ready light flashes several	1	The green Ready light and the three orange
times and then remains on if self-test		lights for the other LEDs flash briefly and then
passes. All other LEDs remain off.		go out.
2 If the self-test fails, the Drive Error and	2	The green Ready LED flashes and then
Tape Error LEDs flash, while the Ready		remains on if self-test passes.
and Clean LEDs are off. This continues	3	If the self-test fails, the Drive Error and Tape
until the drive is reset.		Error LEDs flash, while the Ready and Use
		Cleaning Cartridge LEDs are off. This
		continues until the drive is reset.

table 4: self-test LED sequence

Note The LED labels are identical apart from the bottom one, which is Clean on the Ultrium 960 and 460 and Use Cleaning Cartridge on the Ultrium 230. All references to Clean in the following table should, therefore, read Use Cleaning Cartridge if you have an Ultrium 230 drive.

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