Blink Codes
Table 3 LTO-2 Tape
Drive Blink Codes
Table 3
below summarizes the blink codes for the LTO-2 Half-Height
Tape Drives.
Drive Condition
Cleaning Request
Hardware error
Positioning – loading,
unloading, rewinding,
spacing, or locating
Tape Active – writing,
reading, or verifying
Manual intervention
required
Power On Self Test
(POST) failure
Cleaning cartridge
present
Cleaning cartridge at
EOT
Servo initialization
Power On Self Test
(POST) in progress
Cleaning failure or
media error
Microcode download
Microcode download
error
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Activity LED
Error LED
(Green)
(Orange)
Fast
Slow
Slow
ON
Fast
ON
ON
Slow
Slow
Slow
Fast
Fast
Slow
Fast
Fast
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Blink Codes
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Status LED
(Amber)
ON
ON
ON
Fast
Slow
Slow
Fast
Fast
Fast
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