About The Front-Panel Leds A - Seagate Scorpion 240 DDS-4 Autoloader Manuel D'installation

Scorpion 240 Autoloader Installation Manual
through items from menus on the LCD display, and to access
loader menus if no magazine is installed.
Enter button
You can use the Enter button to select specific items from
menus on the LCD display, to load a cartridge into the drive
(after you have selected the cartridge using the Select
button), or to confirm that you want to eject the magazine
when there is a tape in the drive.
About the front-panel LEDs
As shown in Figure 11 on the previous page, the front panel
of the Scorpion 240 Autoloader contains three LEDs that
provide information during normal and error conditions. The
LED flash codes are summarized below and on the following
pages.
Clean LED
The Clean LED functions as follows:
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Media LED
The Media LED functions as follows:
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If the Clean LED is ON continuously, the drive requires
cleaning. Use only a Seagate-approved cleaning cartridge
to clean the drive, as described on page A-34.
If the Clean LED is flashing slowly, the tape cartridge
currently in use has exceeded a predefined soft-error
threshold. This signal is a warning only and does not
indicate that data has been lost. If you see this signal,
remove the tape at your earliest convenience and clean
the drive using a Seagate-approved DDS cleaning
cartridge. If, after cleaning the drive and reinserting the
original data cartridge, the Clean LED still flashes, then
you should use a new cartridge for future backups.
If the Media LED is ON (lit) continuously, a DDS cartridge
has been inserted and the drive is operating normally.
If the Media LED is flashing rapidly, the drive could not
write the tape correctly (maximum rewrite count
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