Chapter 3 Using Your Tape Drive
Front Panel LEDs and Tape Eject
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  | Activity LED  | Error LED  | Status LED  | |
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  | Drive Condition  | (Green)  | (Orange)  | (Amber)  | 
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  | Cleaning Request  | 
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  | On  | 
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  | Cleaning cartridge  | On  | 
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  | present  | 
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  | Cleaning cartridge at  | On  | 
  | Fast  | 
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  | EOT | 
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  | Cleaning failure or  | 
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  | media error  | 
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  | Hardware error  | 
  | Fast  | 
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  | Manual intervention  | 
  | On  | 
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  | required  | 
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  | Microcode download  | Fast  | Slow  | Fast  | 
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  | Microcode download  | Fast  | Fast  | Fast  | 
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  | error  | 
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  | Positioning – loading,  | Slow  | 
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  | unloading, rewinding,  | 
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  | spacing, or locating  | 
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  | Power On Self Test  | Slow  | Slow  | Slow  | 
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  | (POST) in progress  | 
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  | Power On Self Test  | 
  | Fast  | On  | 
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  | (POST) failure  | 
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  | Servo initialization  | Slow  | 
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  | Tape Active – writing,  | Slow  | 
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  | reading, or verifying  | 
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Quantum  | 17  |