Table 3. Cartridge Status Led - Certance DAT 24 User Manual

Operation
Drive Status LED
The Drive Status LED is yellow and indicates the following conditions:
If the Drive Status light is ON continuously, the drive is reading or writing the tape (that is, SCSI or
DAT activity is present). If you push the eject button while the Drive Status LED is ON, you may lose
data.
NOTE: If a SCSI Prevent Media Removal command has been issued, the Drive Status LED
remains ON until the command is canceled.
If the Drive Status LED is flashing rapidly, a hardware fault has occurred. If this occurs immediately
after power-on and you have enabled the Power On Self Test (POST) through a jumper setting, the
POST may have failed and the drive will not operate.
Cartridge Status LED
The green, rectangular Cartridge Status LED indicates the following conditions:

Table 3. Cartridge Status LED

LED Status
ON (lit)
Flashing Slowly
Flashing Rapidly
Cartridge Status LED and the Drive
Status LED Flashing Slowly
NOTE: As routine maintenance, you should clean the drive heads after every 25 hours of oper-
ation. See page 23.
Meaning
A DAT cartridge has been inserted and the drive is operating normally.
The tape cartridge in the drive has generated a significant number of
data retries beyond a predefined DDS error threshold. This signal is a
warning only and does not indicate data loss. If you see this signal,
remove the tape and clean the tape heads using an approved DDS DAT
cleaning cartridge. If the LED continues flashing or flashes when ejecting
the cartridge, use a new cartridge for future writes.
The drive could not write the tape correctly (maximum rewrite count
exceeded) and the write operation failed. Clean the drive heads using
an approved DDS DAT cleaning cartridge. If the LED continues flashing,
use a new cartridge for future writes
A prerecorded audio cartridge is being played automatically.
LED Codes
25