Encryption Led, Lto-6 And Lto-5 Models Only - Lenovo ThinkServe LTO User Manual

Chapter 5–Understanding the LEDs
Encryption LED, LTO–6 and LTO–5 models only
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LED Sequence Cause
Drive and Ready
ON with Tape and
The drive has a
Clean OFF.
firmware error.
Alternates
repeatedly.
The encryption LED may be blue or amber, as described in the following
table. The state of the other LEDs depends upon the activity, as described
below.
Table 5-2 Encryption LED, LTO–5 tape drives only
Encryption LED (Blue
or Amber)
On
Off
Off with Ready flashing
green
On (solid blue)
On (solid blue) with
Ready flashing green
Alternate flashing, blue
and amber
Note: The Encryption LED only functions if you are using backup
software that supports hardware encryption and this
feature is enabled in the backup application. See
www.tandbergdata.com
compatibility.
Action required
Power cycle or reset the drive.
Upgrade the firmware. If the
condition persists, call for
service.
State
At power on
The drive is idle and there is no encryption key.
The tape drive is reading/writing unencrypted
data from another host or unloading a cartridge.
The drive is idle but the encryption key is loaded.
The drive is ready to read/write encrypted data.
The drive is reading/writing encrypted data.
There is an encryption related error. This is
cleared after unload executes or successful en-
cryption/decryption resumes. .
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