User`s guide

Chapter 5 Understanding the Drive LEDs
Media LED
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Media LED 5
The Media LED indicates whether a DDS cartridge is operating normally.
Table 10 Media LED
Drive LED 5
The amber Drive LED lets you know when data is being read from or
written to tape. It also informs you when a hardware fault occurs.
LED Status Description
ON
continuously
A DDS cartridge has been inserted and the drive is
operating normally.
Flashing rapidly Drive could not write the tape correctly (maximum
rewrite count exceeded) and the write operation
failed. Clean the drive heads using an approved
DDS cleaning cartridge. If you reinsert the original
data cartridge and the LED continues flashing,
insert a new data cartridge and retry the operation