Seagate 240 DDS-4 manual About the front-panel LEDs, Enter button, Clean LED, Media LED

Scorpion 240 Autoloader Installation Manual A-27

through items from menus on the LCD display, and to access loader menus if no magazine is installed.

Enter button

You can use the Enter button to select specific items from menus on the LCD display, to load a cartridge into the drive (after you have selected the cartridge using the Select button), or to confirm that you want to eject the magazine when there is a tape in the drive.

About the front-panel LEDs

As shown in Figure 11 on the previous page, the front panel of the Scorpion 240 Autoloader contains three LEDs that provide information during normal and error conditions. The LED flash codes are summarized below and on the following pages.

Clean LED

The Clean LED functions as follows:

∙If the Clean LED is ON continuously, the drive requires cleaning. Use only a Seagate-approved cleaning cartridge to clean the drive, as described on page A-34.

∙If the Clean LED is flashing slowly, the tape cartridge currently in use has exceeded a predefined soft-error threshold. This signal is a warning only and does not indicate that data has been lost. If you see this signal, remove the tape at your earliest convenience and clean the drive using a Seagate-approved DDS cleaning cartridge. If, after cleaning the drive and reinserting the original data cartridge, the Clean LED still flashes, then you should use a new cartridge for future backups.

Media LED

The Media LED functions as follows:

∙If the Media LED is ON (lit) continuously, a DDS cartridge has been inserted and the drive is operating normally.

∙If the Media LED is flashing rapidly, the drive could not write the tape correctly (maximum rewrite count