24 Operating the Autoloader Chapter 2
Operator’s Panel Overview
The Operator's Panel consists of four LEDs, four buttons, and a 2-line by 16-
character LCD screen. The Operator's Panel provides everything you need to
monitor autoloader status and to control all of its functions.
The display defaults to the Home screen. The Home screen consists of the
autoloader status on the top line and the current cartridge inventory on the
second line. If the tape drive does not have a cartridge loaded, the top line
displays Drive empty (Figure 9 on page 24).
The cartridge inventory indicates all slots that contain a cartridge by displaying
the slot number. Empty slots are indicated by a dash (-).
Figure 9 Home Screen, Drive Empty
An exclamation point (!) displayed in the inventory indicates that the
autoloader has identified a cartridge in the indicated slot that is either an
invalid cartridge type (DLTtape III cartridge or non-DLT1 cleaning cartridge) or
has had a media-related error. These can be caused by faulty or improperly
degaussed media, media that has been previously written in an invalid format
such as DLT 7000 or DLT 8000, or dirty read/write heads in the tape drive.
The Media Attention LED is also illuminated in this case. See LED Indicators on
page 26 for more information.
