Chapter 3 Using Your Tape Drive

 

 

 

Front Panel LEDs and Tape Eject

 

 

 

 

LED/Button/

Color/

 

 

Port Title

Symbol

Action

Explanation

 

 

 

 

Cleaning

Yellow

On

Cleaning is required. See Cleaning the Tape

Required LED

!

 

Mechanism for cleaning information.

 

 

 

 

Off

Cleaning is not required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eject Button

 

Press

Use the Eject button to eject the tape data cartridge

 

 

 

from the tape drive. When you press the button, the

 

 

 

tape drive completes any active writing of data to the

 

 

 

tape, then ejects the data cartridge.

 

 

 

Note: A tape cartridge can be unloaded during an

 

 

 

active FTP session only by using the built-in FTP

 

 

 

client. Right-click within the right pane of the FTP

 

 

 

client window to display the Contextual menu, then

 

 

 

click Eject tape.

 

 

 

See the applicable data cartridge appendix for detailed

 

 

 

data cartridge handling procedures.

 

 

 

 

Infrared

 

 

This infrared port, also known as iTalk, provides a

Communication

 

 

wireless remote testing base for customers and

Port

 

 

integrators to access system diagnostic information.

 

 

 

See your Quantum sales representative for more

 

 

 

information.

 

 

 

 

Note: Whenever the tape drive resets, all LEDs illuminate briefly and then illuminate in sequence until the reset completes. Whenever the tape drive encounters an error, all LEDs flash together.

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