HP dat72 5242 User Manual page 52

Section 3: HP 5242-ACL Tape Drive
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Select Tape Info
Self Test Status
Stray Tape: Info
Insert
Empty Mag
Tape Fault Error Flashing The cartridge in the drive is
Tape Full Error
Tape has Error
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HP StorageWorks DAT 72 (Models 5242 and 5242-ACL) User's Guide
The drive is searching for a
record, filemark, setmark,
or BOD toward the
beginning of the tape that
is responding to a SCSI
SPACE command with a
negative count field.
The drive is searching for a
record, filemark, setmark
or EOD toward the end of
the tape that is responding
to a SCSI SPACE
command with a positive
count field.
Displayed when you press
the Select button and for a
short time after the button
is released.
The autoloader is
performing its power-on
self-test.
There is a cartridge in the
autoloader but there is no
magazine present to put it
in.
faulty, possibly because the
tape has snapped, or the
cartridge has an invalid
pattern of identification
holes.
On A READ, SPACE,
WRITE, or WRITE
FILEMARKS command
encountered EOP. When
reading, this might mean
the required data is on the
next cartridge in sequence.
On A READ command has
encountered compressed
data on the tape, but the
drive is not currently
configured to decompress
data. The host might have
disabled data compression,
or Configuration Switch 2
(on the underside of the
autoloader) is off so the
host ability to control the
drive's state is disabled.
Insert an empty
magazine to retrieve
the cartridge.
Use a new cartridge
and ensure that it is
Media Recognition
System.
Check that the host has
not disabled
compression. Check
that switch 2 is on by
reconfiguring the drive
using the Configuration
Switches on the
underside of the
autoloader.
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