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Plasmon V 15 AIT Tape Library User Manual
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Monitoring Tape Drive Status
You can monitor the status of the tape drives in several ways:
• Reading the status lights on the front of the drive
• Viewing the library’s Drive Display screens
• Viewing the library’s Drive Status screens
Reading the Tape Drive LED Indicators
The meaning of the status lights differ between the AIT-2 and AIT-3 tape drives. Both are illustrated and
explained below.
Figure 26. AIT-2 Tape Drive Status Indicators
The following table describes some of the AIT-2 tape drive LED states. For a complete listing of LED
states, contact Sony. To read the LEDs you must open the library door and remove the magazine in front
of the drive.
Table 14. AIT-2 Tape Drive Status Light Conditions
LED States Condition
Busy (left) LED on SCSI activity is occurring.
Tape (middle) LED on Tape is loaded
Status (right) LED on Cartridge is write-protected.
Tape LED is flashing
(0.25 seconds on; 0.25 seconds off) Tape is loading or unloading.
Tape LED is flashing
(3.5 seconds on; 0.5 seconds off) Error has occurred.
Status LED is flashing
(3.5 seconds on; 0.5 seconds off) Cleaning is required.
Busy Tape Status