Your Hp Storageworks Dat Tape Drive - HP DAT 40e Getting Started Manual

Your HP StorageWorks DAT tape drive

There are two LEDs, a Power On LED and an eject cartridge button on the front panel of your
tape drive and a power on/off button on the rear panel. See page 19 for more information
about loading and unloading cartridges and page 35 for information about forcing ejection.
Front panel LEDs
There are two LEDs, labeled Tape and Clean. (See figure 8.)
or
Tape LED Clean LED
on off
flashing off
slowly
flashing off
rapidly
off on
off or flashing
flashing slowly
rapidly
flashing flashing
slowly slowly
Meaning
The cartridge is loaded and the drive is ready.
The cartridge is loading or unloading, or self-test is
in progress.
The cartridge is loaded, activity is occurring.
This is the Error Condition Signal.
HP StorageWorks DAT drives perform a
comprehensive self-test during power-up. If a hard
error causes the self-test to fail, the clean light
changes to steady amber. Run HP Library & Tape
Tools to help diagnose the problem. (See
This is the Media Caution Signal.
1 Wait for the current operation to finish, then
insert a different tape and repeat the operation that
was being performed.
2 If the media caution signal does not show this
time, it indicates that the original cartridge was
nearing the end of its useful life. Copy any data
you want to keep from the original tape onto a
new tape if possible, then discard the old tape.
3 If the media caution signal appears again with
the second tape, the tape heads need cleaning.
4 If the media caution signal appears after using
a cleaning cartridge, the cleaning cartridge has
probably expired and should be discarded.
When the two LEDs flash alternately, the tape drive
is in disaster recovery mode, restoring the
operating system (see "Running HP OBDR" on
page 28).
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