Half-Height Drives; Usual Meaning Of Leds - HP LTO Ultrium Technical Reference Manual

NOTE:
Only full-height drives have a reset switch.

Half-height drives

1. LEDs

Usual meaning of LEDs

The five LEDs, Ready, Drive Error, Tape Error, Clean and Encryption usually have the following
meanings:
Ready
Drive Error
Tape Error
22 Front panel and LEDs
2. Eject button
Green. Indicates power and activity:
Off Power off or self-test failure
On Powered on and ready for use, but no activity
Flashing Engaged in activity, such as responding to Read, Write or Space
commands or performing a self-test
Fast flash Downloading new firmware.
Repeating pat- A repeating pattern of short and long flashes indicates that the drive
tern is in OBDR mode.
Orange. Indicates drive problems:
Off No fault
Flashing Unrecoverable hardware failure. A power cycle or successful tape
load will turn the LED off, but the LED will start flashing again if the
same operation is performed and the hardware fault is still present
Orange. Indicates tape problems:
Off No fault
Flashing Current tape is faulty, such as unreadable cartridge memory or unsup-
ported type. Do not use the cartridge; replace it. The LED will go out
when a tape load begins.