Dell PowerVault LTO-5-140 Storage User's Guide - Page 26

5. Single dot. This single-character display is blank during normal operation. When a single dot illuminates and flashes on the display, the drive has created a dump of vital technical data to drive memory. 6. Encryption status LED. This white LED indicates all data (except for the label information) on the cartridge is encrypted. LTO5 cartridges only. Table 1. SCD, Ready/Activity LED, and Fault LED Descriptions Condition of green Ready/Activity LED Off Condition of amber Fault LED Off On Solid Off Flashing once per Off second Off On/Solid Off On Solid Off Flashing once per second Off Flashing twice per second Off Flashing once every 2 seconds Condition of white encryption LED Condition of the SCD Panel Condition of the SCD Dot Meaning of LEDs and SCD Panel and SCD Dot Off Off Off The tape drive has no power or is powered off. Off Off or Off The tape drive is powered on or (if a solid displays in the single character display) needs cleaning. On or Off Off Off The tape drive is reading from the tape, writing to the tape, rewinding the tape, locating data on the tape, loading the tape, or unloading the tape. The Encryption LED will be On if all the data on the cartridge is encrypted during these drive operations. The Ready/Activity LED also flashes green if the tape drive contains a cartridge during the power on cycle. In this case, the drive completes POST and slowly rewinds the tape (this process may take approximately 13 minutes). The Ready/Activity LED stops blinking when the drive completes the recovery and is ready for a read or write operation. To eject the cartridge, press the unload button. Off On Solid On/Off The tape drive is in maintenance mode or is displaying an error code on the SCD in maintenance mode option 9. Off Flashing once On/Off Executing the selected option while in per second maintenance mode. Off On Solid Off An error occurred and the tape drive or media may require service or drive may require cleaning. Note the code on the single character display, and then go to the error code table in the troubleshooting section to determine the meaning of the error codes. If a appears on the SCD, a cleaning cartridge must be loaded. Off Off Off The drive is updating firmware. Off Off Off The drive detected an error and is performing a firmware recovery. It will reset automatically. Rear Panel Figure 4. Rear Panel of Internal SAS Tape Drive 1. SAS connector 2. Ethernet - not iSCSI 3. Feature switches (on bottom)