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eventual result is to eject the tape. For example, this message will appear even thought the tape drive is
continuing to flush the buffer during a READ or a Write, because the eventual result is to rewind and
eject the tape. This will give instant acknowledgement to the operator that the button press was received
by the drive. The ICON will change to < < (same as Rewind) when the rewind phase is in process.
EJECT PREVNT This message will be displayed if the system has issued a "prevent media removal" command and the
drive unload button is pressed. The tape will rewind and unload into the tape cartridge, but the cartridge
will not eject from the drive.
READ + ** The + sign appears whenever the drive is in compression mode. The boxes show the amount of tape
used as a percent of the total tape length. The empty area is shown as equal sign so that the line is
complete. There are up to 6 solid squares to follow the message as shown in the following 5 messages.
WRITE + ** The + sign appears whenever the drive is in compression mode.
PROTECTED If a write is attempted on a Write Protected tape, the PROTECTED message is displayed.
ILLEGAL WRT The ILLEGAL WRT message is displayed if write is attempted to a for which writing is not supported
on this tape drive. This message remains until another tape is inserted that is the correct type or another
legal command is issued such as a READ, REWIND, or the eject button is pushed.
Note: ILLEGAL WRT - Only tapes labeled AME can be written by these drives. Tapes labeled 15m,
54m, 112m, or 160m are Metal Particle(MP) and cannot be written.
SEARCH ** Used for high speed searching to indicate the position on the cartridge. The display bar will increase or
decrease for forward or backward searches.
REWIND ** Self explanatory. Display bar reduces in size as rewind occurs.
ERASE ** Self explanatory. This occurs very quickly for a short erase.
WORN TAPE This message is displayed when the tape in the drive is beyond the end of its useful life(20,000 passes
of the tape drive head over any spot on the tape). This counter is an internal counter that is not
accessible to the user.
This counter was implemented starting in microcode level 40HA in the 20GB drive and first shipment
of 60GB drive.
To avoid the possibility of data loss, copy the data you need from this tape to a new tape as soon as
possible.
OVER TEMP The tape drive detected an internal temperature of 47 degrees C or greater. If a data cartridge is in the
tape drive when this condition occurs, the tape drive will complete the current tape operation, and then
rewind and eject the data cartridge. After the tape drive temperature returns to a normal operating
temperature of 42 degrees C or less, the OVER TEMP message continues to display until one of the
following occurs:
z Front-panel reset(press and hold the Unload button.
z Power cycle(tape drive power is turned off and then on)
z Tape load(load a tape in the tape drive)
LOADING
CODE..
CODE LOAD
FAIL
RETRY CODE
LOAD
If a code load tape is inserted and the tape is recognized as such, or a code load is in process via the
SCSI or Monitor port, then the LOADING CODE.. message is displayed. At the completion of the code
load, if there was a failure, CODE LOAD FAIL and RETRY CODE LOAD messages scroll.
Otherwise, if the code load was successful, the drive will automatically RESET and come READY
again.
DIAG-LOAD
TAPE
DIAG-TESTING
DIAG-PASSED
DIAG-FAILED
DIAG-WRT
xx.x%
DIAG-READ
xx.x%
DIAG-ECC
xx.x%
If a SCSI Send Diagnostic command is received, or a Diagnostic tape is used, then this series of
messages appears. DIAG-LOAD TAPE is used if the command is via SCSI and no tape is present.
DIAG-TESTING appears during this test.
If the test passes OK, then the DIAG-PASSED appears for 15 seconds. If there is a failure, then DIAG-
FAILED appears and the 3 statistics messages appear for 2 seconds each in a rotating loop. Pressing the
Eject button to remove the tape will clear this display. Otherwise this message will continue to display
DIAG-FAIL(plus the 3 statistics messages) until the drive is RESET.
ERR 1: xx yy zz
ERR 2: xx yy zz
Failing error codes displayed when the drive is first powered on or during tape drive operation.
Where xx is the fault symptom code.
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