User`s guide

Chapter 5 Understanding the Drive LEDs
Clean LED
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Clean LED 5
The Clean LED indicates whether a drive needs to be cleaned.
Table 9 Clean LED
Media Green ON (Lit)
Flashing
An inserted cartridge is operating
properly.
Drive could not write the tape
correctly (write error). Use a DDS
cleaning cartridge to clean the drive.
Drive Amber ON (Lit)
Rapid Flashing
Drive is reading/writing normally.
A hardware fault has occurred.
LED Status Description
ON Continuously Drive requires cleaning. Use only an approved
DDS cleaning cartridge.
Flashing slowly
(approximately ON
2 seconds, OFF 1
second)
Tape cartridge in use has exceeded a
predefined soft-error threshold. This signal is
a warning only and does not indicate that data
has been compromised. Remove the tape and
clean the drive using an approved DDS
cleaning cartridge. If the Clean LED still
flashes after cleaning and reinserting the
original data cartridge, use a new cartridge for
future backups.
Flashing rapidly A cleaning cartridge that has exceeded its
useful life has been inserted into the drive.
Replace the cleaning cartridge with a new
approved DDS cleaning cartridge.
LED Color Action Description