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Clean LED
The Clean LED indicates whether a drive needs to be cleaned.
Media LED
The Media LED indicates whether a DDS cartridge is operating normally.
Note: As routine maintenance, clean the drive heads after every 30 hours of
operation.
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DDS Gen 5 Tape Drive: User's Guide
LED
Color
Drive 3
Amber
LED Status
ON continuously
Flashing slowly (approximately ON 2
seconds, OFF 1 second)
Flashing rapidly
LED status
ON continuously
Flashing rapidly
Action
Description
Flashing
Drive could not write
the tape correctly
(write error). Use a
DDS cleaning
cartridge to clean the
drive.
ON (Lit)
Drive is reading or
writing the tape
normally.
Rapid flashing
A hardware fault has
occurred.
Description
Drive requires cleaning. Use only an
approved DDS cleaning cartridge.
Tape cartridge in use has exceeded a
predefined soft-error threshold. This signal
is a warning only and does not indicate that
data has been compromised. Remove the
tape and clean the drive using an approved
DDS cleaning cartridge. If the Clean LED
still flashes after cleaning and reinserting the
original data cartridge, use a new cartridge
for future backups.
Cleaning cartridge has exceeded its useful
life has been inserted into the drive. Replace
the cleaning cartridge with a new approved
DDS cleaning cartridge.
Description
A DDS cartridge has been inserted and the
drive is operating normally.
Drive could not write the tape correctly
(maximum rewrite count exceeded) and the
write operation failed. Clean the drive heads
using an approved DDS cleaning cartridge.
If you reinsert the original data cartridge
and the LED continues flashing, insert a
new data cartridge and retry the operation.
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