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