Tandberg Data LTO-1 HH Tape Drive Operation, Front LED Indicators, Tape Cartridge Operation

4 Tape Drive Operation

4.1 Front LED Indicators

Figure 4.1 Status indicators (LEDs)

Drive State		READY LED		ACTIVITY LED		CLEAN LED
		(Green)		(Green)		(Amber)
LED-test.
The LEDs are turned ON in sequence		ON		ON		ON
Power-On Self-Test		Flashing in		After 12 sec:		OFF
Starts in parallel with the LED-test .		about 12 sec		Flashing during
				cartridge load
Cartridge not loaded.	OFF		OFF		ON / OFF
Cartridge loaded, no activity	ON		OFF		ON / OFF
Cartridge loaded, activity	ON		Flashing		ON / OFF
Cleaning		OFF		Flashing	ON
Cartridge loading or unloading	OFF		Flashing		ON / OFF
Unrecoverable drive failure	ON / OFF		OFF		ON / OFF
Over temperature		OFF		OFF		ON / OFF
Media Error (wrong, write protected or		OFF		Flashing	ON / OFF
harmed media)

FAULT LED (Amber)

ON

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

Flashing

ON

Flashing

Table 4.1 Front LED behaviour during normal operation

See Appendix A for more information on LED operation

4.2 Tape Cartridge Operation

Use only certified quality cartridges for the Tandberg LTO HH Tape Drives. Do not use worn or audibly noisy cartridges. Cartridges which repeatedly require rewriting of large numbers of data- blocks per track should also be rejected.

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