Operating The Tape Drive; Reading The Leds - Exabyte EXB-8205 Owner's Manual

Operating the tape drive

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Reading the LEDs

The tape drive uses three LEDs to indicate its operating states. The LEDs
indicate the following general conditions:
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Reading the tape drive's LEDs
Selecting data cartridges
Setting the write-protect switch on the data cartridge
Loading and unloading a data cartridge
When the top (orange) LED is flashing, the tape drive has an error or
needs cleaning.
When the middle LED is on or flashing, SCSI bus activity is
occurring. The middle LED can be green or orange, as follows:
Orange: The tape loaded in the tape drive is in one of the
compression formats (8500c or 8200c). Note that when
the tape is in 8500c format, the LED is always orange
even though compression can be turned off.
Green: The tape loaded in the tape drive is in one of the
non-compression formats (8500 or 8200).
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