Ordering Hp Dds Cassettes; C1504B 3.5 Inch Dds-Format Tape Drive - HP 3000 Series Handbook

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Table 1-8. C1504B 3.5 inch DDS-Format Tape Drive
Cassette Light
Drive Light Condition
No Cassette States
Off Off No cassette loaded or power is off.
Flash Yellow Flash Yellow Self-test in progress.
Off Flash Green No cassette, tape drive is active.
Write Enable States
On Green On Green Cassette loaded, tape drive online.
On Green Flash Green Cassette loaded, tape drive active.
Pulse Green Pulse Green Loading, unloading, or ejecting cassette.
On Green Off Tape drive offline. Cassette loaded.
Write Protect States
On Yellow
On Green
Read only cassette loaded, tape drive online.
On Yellow Flash Green Read only cassette loaded, tape drive active.
Pulse Yellow Pulse Green Loading, unloading, or ejecting cassette.
On Yellow Off
Tape drive offline. Read-only cassette loaded.
Error States
On Green Pulse Green/Yellow Caution
1
(media warning).
On Yellow On Yellow Moisture detected or no termination resistors
2
.
Pulse Yellow
On Yellow Fault
3
.
1
This occurs during writes where an excessive number of read after write errors occur and
during reads where an excessive level of C3 correction being applied. This indication would
persist until the cassette is unloaded.
2
The termination resistor problem would only occur at power on time and the tape drive will
appear to have hung during self-test.
3
Indicates a failure of the DDS Field Replaceable Unit.
Ordering HP DDS cassettes
The 60 meter cassette tape, product number HP 92283A, can hold up to 1.3 gigabytes ( 1300
megabytes) of data. They are packaged in a red box of 5 cassettes. Use the 60 meter cassettes
in either the full height (5.25 inch) DDS tape drive, or the half height (3.5 inch) DDS tape
drive.
The 90 meter cassette tape, product number HP 92283B, can hold up to 2 gigabytes (2000
megabytes) of data and are packaged in yellow
0
Use the 90 meter cassettes only in the half
height (3.5 inch) DDS tape drive.
The cleaning cassette tape is product number HP 92283K.
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