Rear Panel - Dell PowerVault LTO3-080 User Manual

a green Ready/Activity LED providing information about the state of the tape drive. The LED
can be solid on or flashing when lit. See Table 1 for more descriptions.
3. Fault LED. The front panel of your Dell PowerVault LTO5-140HH tape drive has an amber
fault LED indicating the drive has encountered an error, is not in a normal operational
status, or needs cleaning. See table 1 for more detailed description.
4. Single-character display (SCD). This LED presents a single-character code for
diagnostic/maintenance functions, error conditions, and informational messages.
5. Single dot. This single-character display is blank during normal operation. When a single
dot illuminates and flashes on the display, the drive has created a dump of vital technical
data to drive memory.
6. Encryption status LED. This white LED indicates all data (except for the label
information) on the cartridge is encrypted. LTO5 cartridges only.
Table 1. SCD, Ready/Activity LED, and Fault LED Descriptions
Condition of green Condition of
Ready/Activity LED amber Fault LED
Off Off
On Solid Off
Flashing once per Off
second
Off On/Solid
Off On Solid
Off Flashing once
per second
Off Flashing twice
per second
Off Flashing once
every 2
seconds

Rear Panel

Figure 5. Rear Panel of Internal SAS Tape Drive
Condition of
Condition of the
white encryption
SCD Panel
LED
Off Off
Off Off or
On or Off Off
Off On Solid
Off Flashing once
per second
Off On Solid
Off Off
Off Off
Condition of the
Meaning of LEDs and SCD Panel and SCD Dot
SCD Dot
Off The tape drive has no power or is
powered off.
Off The tape drive is powered on or (if a solid
displays in the single character
display) needs cleaning.
Off The tape drive is reading from the tape,
writing to the tape, rewinding the tape,
locating data on the tape, loading the
tape, or unloading the tape. The
Encryption LED will be On if all the data on
the cartridge is encrypted during these
drive operations. The Ready/Activity LED
also flashes green if the tape drive
contains a cartridge during the power on
cycle. In this case, the drive completes
POST and slowly rewinds the tape (this
process may take approximately 13
minutes). The Ready/Activity LED stops
blinking when the drive completes the
recovery and is ready for a read or write
operation. To eject the cartridge, press
the unload button.
On/Off The tape drive is in maintenance mode or
is displaying an error code on the SCD in
maintenance mode option 9.
On/Off Executing the selected option while in
maintenance mode.
Off An error occurred and the tape drive or
media may require service or drive may
require cleaning. Note the code on the
single character display, and then go to
the error code table in the
troubleshooting section to determine the
meaning of the error codes. If a
appears on the SCD, a cleaning cartridge
must be loaded.
Off The drive is updating firmware.
Off The drive detected an error and is
performing a firmware recovery. It will
reset automatically.