Operator's Panel Overview; Figure 9 Operator's Panel-Drive Empty - Freecom VALUELOADER DLT User Manual

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Operating the ValueLoader

Operator's Panel Overview

Figure 9 Operator's

Panel—Drive Empty

ValueLoader DLT VS80/DLT VS160 Tape Autoloader User Manual

The Operator's Panel consists of four LEDs, four buttons, and a

2-line by 16-character LCD screen. The Operator's Panel provides

everything you need to monitor ValueLoader status and to control

all of its functions.

The display defaults to the Home screen. The Home screen

consists of the ValueLoader status on the top line and the current

cartridge inventory on the second line. If the tape drive does not

have a cartridge loaded, the top line displays "Drive empty."

The cartridge inventory indicates all slots that contain a cartridge

by displaying the slot number. Empty slots are indicated by a

hyphen (–).

An exclamation point (!) displayed in the inventory indicates that

the ValueLoader has identified a cartridge in the indicated slot that

is either an invalid cartridge type (DLTtapeIII cartridge or non-

DLT1 cleaning cartridge) or has had a media-related error These

can be caused by faulty or improperly degaussed media, media

that has been previously written in an invalid format such as

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