Blink Codes; Table 6. Lto-1 Tape Drive Blink Codes - Certance LTO 1 User Manual

Operation
All drives have four LEDs on the front panel. The LED colors and functions are summarized below.
Power LED (green)
•
Status LED (amber)
•
Error LED (orange)
•
Activity LED (green)
•
The Status, Error, and Activity LEDs blink or go on to indicate information about the tape drive. For
more information about the "blink codes" associated with these LEDs, refer to "Blink Codes" on
page 32.

Blink Codes

Table 6 on page 32 summarizes the blink codes for the LTO-1 tape drives. Table 7 on page 33 sum-
marizes the blink codes for the LTO-2 tape drives.

Table 6. LTO-1 Tape Drive Blink Codes

Drive Condition
Cleaning Request
Write-protected
Prevent media removal mode
active
Hardware or firmware error
Positioning – loading, unloading,
rewinding, spacing, or locating
Tape Active – writing, reading,
or verifying
SCSI active
Manual intervention required
Power On Self Test (POST) failure ON
Excessive rewrites or read C2
errors
Cleaning cartridge present
Cleaning cartridge at EOT
SCSI bus reset
Servo initialization
Status LED (Amber) Error LED (Orange)
ON
1/2 sec ON
1/2 sec OFF
1/2 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/8 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/8 sec ON 1/8 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF 1/8 sec OFF
1/2 sec ON
1/2 sec OFF
1/4 sec ON
1/4 sec OFF
ON
1/8 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/4 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/2 sec ON
1/2 sec OFF

Blink Codes

Activity LED
(Green)
ON continuously
1/2 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/4 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/8 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
ON
ON
1/4 sec ON
1/8 sec OFF
1/2 sec ON
1/2 sec OFF
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