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Blink Codes
LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive User’s Guide 21
Blink Codes 3
Table 3 below summarizes the blink codes for the LTO-2 Half-Height
Tape Drives.
Table 3 LTO-2 Tape
Drive Blink Codes
Drive Condition
Activity LED
(Green)
Error LED
(Orange)
Status LED
(Amber)
Cleaning Request ON
Hardware error Fast
Positioning – loading,
unloading, rewinding,
spacing, or locating
Slow
Tape Active – writing,
reading, or verifying
Slow
Manual intervention
required
ON
Power On Self Test
(POST) failure
Fast ON
Cleaning cartridge
present
ON ON
Cleaning cartridge at
EOT
ON Fast
Servo initialization Slow Slow
Power On Self Test
(POST) in progress
Slow Slow Slow
Cleaning failure or
media error
Fast Fast
Microcode download Fast Slow Fast
Microcode download
error
Fast Fast Fast