Led Codes - Seagate DAT Drive DDS Manuel D'installation

Seagate DAT Drive Installation Manual—English
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Whenever the rectangular, green Cartridge-status LED
flashes during operation.
Note: A slowly flashing green LED may indicate that a
tape is damaged or is nearing the end of its life. If
cleaning the head does not correct the flashing LED
condition, replace the cartridge. The slowly flashing LED
does not indicate a loss of data, nor does it indicate SCSI
problems.
To clean the tape heads on your DAT drive, use only a
Seagate-qualified DDS DAT cleaning cartridge designed for
DAT drives. Seagate offers a cleaning cartridge, Model
91301, which you can order from Seagate Express.
After you insert the cleaning cartridge, the drive detects that
the cartridge is a cleaning cartridge, then loads and runs the
cartridge for about 30 seconds. When cleaning is complete,
the drive ejects the cartridge.
Each time the cleaning cartridge is loaded, a new, unused
portion of cleaning tape is advanced over the entire tape
path. The drive does not rewind a cleaning cartridge. After
about 30 cleaning cycles the entire tape is used up and you
must purchase a new cleaning cartridge.
If you insert a cleaning tape that has been used up, the drive
ejects the tape without completing a cleaning operation. This
process takes just under 25 seconds.
Note: Do not use an audio DAT cleaning cartridge. The
drive cannot recognize it.

LED codes

As shown in Figure 12 on the following page, the front panel
of Seagate DAT drives contains two rectangular lights
(LEDs). These two indicators provide information about both
normal and error conditions. The yellow rectangular LED
indicates the condition of the tape drive. The green LED
indicates the condition of the tape cartridge.
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