Tandberg Data 600 manual Front Panel Controls and LEDs

SDLT 600 Product Manual Chapter 5: Using Your Tape Drive

5.5Front Panel Controls and LEDs

All controls and LEDs are on the tape drive’s front panel. See Figure 5-2for details. Use these controls and LEDs to operate the tape drive and monitor the SDLT 600 tape drive system’s activities. Table 5-2 on page 5-10and Table 5-3 on page 5-11describe Control and LED functionality.

Green/Orange LED

(Drive Density)

Green LED

(Drive Status)

Yellow LED

(Cleaning Required)

Eject Button

iTalk Port

Figure 5-2.SDLT 600 Tape Drive Front Panel

On the SDLT 600 tape drive, the leftmost LED is dual color (green/orange). This LED is the Density Indicator. When you insert a Super DLTtape II data cartridge, this LED illuminates green. When the tape drive detects a backward read compatible (BRC) data cartridge, this LED illuminates orange.

(The SDLT 600 tape drive backward reads Super DLTtape I data cartridges formatted in an SDLT 220 or SDLT 320 tape drive, or DLTtape VS1 data cartridges formatted in a VS160 tape drive.)

If a DLTtape IV data cartridge is inserted, the Drive Density LED is off. Table 5-2summarizes these combinations.

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