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AppendixB Drive
B-1 front
Figure shows the external view of the front face and the names of sections.
1.Status LED
2.Unload button
3.Single character display(SCD)
B-2 Status LED
The status LED indicates the status of the tape drive. Depending on the status, the LED lights or
blinks green or yellow. Table list below is the status of the status LED and its description.
Color and
status of
status lamp
Description
OFF
Tape drive power-off state
Green/ON
Tape drive power-on state or request of cleaning (if C appears on the single
character display)
Green/blink
The tape drive provides tape read/write, rewind, locate, or load/unload operation.
Yellow/ON
The tape drive is being started or in the maintenance mode.
Yellow/blin
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Any of the following states:
- If the lamp blinks once per second, an error occurs and the intervention of a
maintenance engineer is required. If so, the error code is that displayed on the
single character display.
- If the lamp blinks twice per second, the tape drive updates firmware using the
FMR tape, SCSI bus, fiber channel, or RS-422.
- If the lamp blinks four times per second, the tape drive detects an error and runs
the firmware recovery (the reset operation is done automatically).
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