Quantum LTO-2 User Manual
Chapter 3 Operation
Blink Codes
LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive User’s Guide
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Blink Codes
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below summarizes the blink codes for the LTO-2 Half-Height
Tape Drives.
Table 3 LTO-2 Tape
Drive Blink Codes
Drive Blink Codes
Drive Condition
Activity LED
(Green)
(Green)
Error LED
(Orange)
(Orange)
Status LED
(Amber)
(Amber)
Cleaning Request
ON
Hardware error
Fast
Positioning – loading,
unloading, rewinding,
spacing, or locating
Slow
Tape Active – writing,
reading, or verifying
Slow
Manual intervention
required
ON
Power On Self Test
(POST) failure
Fast
ON
Cleaning cartridge
present
ON
ON
Cleaning cartridge at
EOT
ON
Fast
Servo initialization
Slow
Slow
Power On Self Test
(POST) in progress
Slow
Slow
Slow
Cleaning failure or
media error
Fast
Fast
Microcode download
Fast
Slow
Fast
Microcode download
error
Fast
Fast
Fast