
Chapter 4 Using Your Tape Drive
Front Panel Controls and LEDs
SDLT 600 Product Manual
Table 33 How to Interpret the
Front Panel LEDs and Other
Controls
LED/Button/
Port Title
Color/
Symbol Action Explanation
Drive Density
LED
Orange/
Green
On/Off See table 32
.
Drive Status LED
Green
Flashing
The tape drive is in use. This includes functions such
as:
• The tape is moving.
• The tape drive is calibrating, reading, writing, or
rewinding the tape.
• The tape drive is loading, unloading, or rewinding.
On The tape drive is idle. There may or may not be a data
cartridge in the tape drive.
Off The tape drive has not been powered on or is not
plugged into a power source.
Cleaning
Required LED
Yellow On Cleaning is required. See Cleaning the Tape
Mechanism on page 75 for cleaning information.
Off Cleaning is not required.
Eject Button Press Use the
Eject button to eject the tape data cartridge
from the tape drive. When you press the button, the
tape drive completes any active writing of data to the
tape, then ejects the data cartridge.
Refer to the applicable data cartridge appendix for
detailed data cartridge handling procedures.
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