Troubleshooting with tape drive leds, Clean, tape, drive and ready led sequences – HP StoreEver LTO Ultrium Tape Blades User Manual
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Off: no fault has been detected
Flashing amber: the cartridge currently in the drive is faulty (damaged
or unsupported). Discard the cartridge.
Tape LED
2
Off: no fault has been detected
Flashing amber: the drive mechanism has detected a hardware error
Drive LED
3
Green: the drive is ready for use
Off: the drive power is off or there was a failure during self-test
Flashing: the drive is busy
Ready LED
4
Troubleshooting with Tape Drive LEDs
The meaning of different patterns of tape drive LEDs is as follows. See the HP BladeSystem Technical
Resources website
for more comprehensive troubleshooting information.
The LED sequences in the following table relate to the Clean, Tape, Drive and Ready LEDs. The HP
StorageWorks SB3000c Tape Blade also has an Encryption LED that describes encryption status. This
is described separately in “
” on page 41. The meaning of different patterns of LEDs,
without encryption enabled, is as follows:
Table 2 Clean, Tape, Drive and Ready LED sequences
Action required
Cause
LED Sequence
Check that the Tape Blade is installed
correctly.
Check the System Health LED is green.
Use the Onboard Administrator to check
the status of the Tape Blade.
If the tape drive LEDs are still off, call for
service.
Drive may not have power,
may be faulty or may have
been power cycled or reset
during a firmware upgrade.
All LEDs OFF.
Power the server blade off and on again.
If the error condition reappears, call for
service.
The drive has failed to execute
power-on self test (POST).
Ready and Clean OFF. Drive
and Tape FLASH.
None. This is normal.
The drive is ready for opera-
tion.
Ready is ON.
None.
If the drive is upgrading firmware, do not
reset or power cycle it.
The drive is carrying out a nor-
mal activity (read, write).
Ready FLASHES.
See “
” on page 56 for
further details.
The drive is in OBDR mode.
Ready sequence FLASHES- ON-
FLASHES.
None.
Do not reset or power cycle the drive.
The drive is downloading firm-
ware.
Ready FLASHES fast.
None.
Do not reset or power cycle the drive.
Firmware is being repro-
grammed.
Ready is OFF, others are ON.
Understanding LEDs
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