Chapter 4 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting 59
Cleaning
Recurring cleaning message or
media attention light.
■ Make sure you are using a DLT vs80 compatible cleaning
cartridge.
■ Replace the existing cleaning cartridge with a new one.
■ If the Media Attention LED is cleared using a cleaning cartridge
and then immediately reappears after a particular data
cartridge is reloaded, that data cartridge might be
contaminated. If this occurs, check that the data cartridge can be
read, back up data from the suspect cartridge to another
cartridge, and then discard the suspect cartridge.
The Clean Drive LED is
illuminated.
■ Indicates that 250 tape motion hours have passed since you last
cleaned the tape drive.
■ Clean the tape drive. See Cleaning the Tape Drive on page 36
for instructions.
Cannot load the cleaning
cartridge.
■ Make sure you are using a DLT vs80 compatible cleaning
cartridge. (See page 36.)
■ Contact your service representative.
Media Compatibility
Media format invalid for drive
type.
■ You attempted to load incompatible media into the tape drive.
Ensure your media and format is compatible with a DLT vs80
tape drive. See page 29 for more information.
Media is labeled as write
protected by the host server,
but restore from tape
successful.
■ Media with the DLT 4000 format was loaded into the tape drive.
The data is readable, but the media must be bulk erased before
the tape drive can write to this cartridge.
Table 4 Troubleshooting Table
Problem Solution
