Plasmon V15 manual Monitoring Tape Drive Status, Reading the Tape Drive LED Indicators

Monitoring Tape Drive Status

You can monitor the status of the tape drives in several ways:

•Reading the status lights on the front of the drive

•Viewing the library’s Drive Display screens

•Viewing the library’s Drive Status screens

Reading the Tape Drive LED Indicators

The meaning of the status lights differ between the AIT-2 and AIT-3 tape drives. Both are illustrated and explained below.

BusyTape Status

Figure 26. AIT-2 Tape Drive Status Indicators

The following table describes some of the AIT-2 tape drive LED states. For a complete listing of LED states, contact Sony. To read the LEDs you must open the library door and remove the magazine in front of the drive.

Table 14. AIT-2 Tape Drive Status Light Conditions

LED States	Condition
Busy (left) LED on	SCSI activity is occurring.
Tape (middle) LED on	Tape is loaded
Status (right) LED on	Cartridge is write-protected.
Tape LED is flashing	Tape is loading or unloading.
(0.25 seconds on; 0.25 seconds off)
Tape LED is flashing	Error has occurred.
(3.5 seconds on; 0.5 seconds off)
Status LED is flashing	Cleaning is required.
(3.5 seconds on; 0.5 seconds off)

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