Chapter 3 Using Your Tape Drive

Front Panel LEDs and Tape Eject

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 4 LTO-3A LED Codes

 

Activity LED

Error LED

Status LED

 

 

 

 

 

Drive Condition

(Green)

(Orange)

(Amber)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning Request

 

 

On

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning cartridge

On

 

On

 

 

present

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning cartridge at

On

 

Fast

 

 

EOT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning failure or

 

Fast

Fast

 

 

media error

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hardware error

 

Fast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manual intervention

 

On

 

 

 

required

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microcode download

Fast

Slow

Fast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microcode download

Fast

Fast

Fast

 

 

error

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Positioning – loading,

Slow

 

 

 

 

unloading, rewinding,

 

 

 

 

 

spacing, or locating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power On Self Test

Slow

Slow

Slow

 

 

(POST) in progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power On Self Test

 

Fast

On

 

 

(POST) failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Servo initialization

Slow

 

Slow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tape Active – writing,

Slow

 

 

 

 

reading, or verifying

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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