Rear Panel - Dell PowerVault LTO-5-140 Storage User Manual

5. Single dot. This single-character display is blank during normal operation. When a single dot illuminates and flashes on the display, the drive has created a dump of
vital technical data to drive memory.
6. Encryption status LED. This white LED indicates all data (except for the label information) on the cartridge is encrypted. LTO5 cartridges only.
Table 1. SCD, Ready/Activity LED, and Fault LED Descriptions
Condition of
Condition of green
amber Fault
Ready/Activity LED
LED
Off Off
On Solid Off
Flashing once per Off
second
Off On/Solid
Off On Solid
Off Flashing once
per second
Off Flashing twice
per second
Off Flashing once
every 2
seconds

Rear Panel

Figure 4. Rear Panel of Internal SAS Tape Drive
1. SAS connector
2. Ethernet - not iSCSI
3. Feature switches (on bottom)
Condition of
Condition of the
white encryption
SCD Panel
LED
Off Off
Off Off or
On or Off Off
Off On Solid
Off Flashing once
per second
Off On Solid
Off Off
Off Off
Condition of the Meaning of LEDs and SCD Panel and SCD
SCD Dot Dot
Off The tape drive has no power or is powered
off.
Off The tape drive is powered on or (if a solid
displays in the single character display)
needs cleaning.
Off The tape drive is reading from the tape,
writing to the tape, rewinding the tape,
locating data on the tape, loading the tape,
or unloading the tape. The Encryption LED
will be On if all the data on the cartridge is
encrypted during these drive operations. The
Ready/Activity LED also flashes green if the
tape drive contains a cartridge during the
power on cycle. In this case, the drive
completes POST and slowly rewinds the
tape (this process may take approximately
13 minutes). The Ready/Activity LED stops
blinking when the drive completes the
recovery and is ready for a read or write
operation. To eject the cartridge, press the
unload button.
On/Off The tape drive is in maintenance mode or is
displaying an error code on the SCD in
maintenance mode option 9.
On/Off Executing the selected option while in
maintenance mode.
Off An error occurred and the tape drive or
media may require service or drive may
require cleaning. Note the code on the single
character display, and then go to the error
code table in the troubleshooting section to
determine the meaning of the error codes. If
a appears on the SCD, a cleaning
cartridge must be loaded.
Off The drive is updating firmware.
Off The drive detected an error and is
performing a firmware recovery. It will reset
automatically.