User's Guide

FastStor 2 User’s Guide 11
Operating the Autoloader
This topic discusses how to operate the autoloader components.
Operator Panel
The operator panel consists of a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, four LEDs, and four buttons. The
operator panel provides everything you need to monitor autoloader status and to control all of its functions.
Figure 3 Operator Control Panel
LCD Screen
The display defaults to the main menu. The main menu consists of the autoloader status on the top line and
the current cartridge inventory on the second line. The autoloader status line indicates the current operation.
The cartridge inventory indicates the status of cartridge slots as follows:
• Full slots are indicated by the slot number.
• Empty slots are indicated by a dash (-).
• If a cartridge is currently loaded in the drive, the display alternates the number of the home position
for that cartridge with a black block.
• An exclamation point (!) indicates that the autoloader has identified a cartridge that is either an
invalid type or has had a media-related error. The Media Attention LED indicator is also illuminated
in this case. Refer to LED Indicators
on page 12 for more information.
LCD screen
LEDs
buttons