HP LTO Ultrium 4 drives technical reference manual, volume 2: software integration 81
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10 No removal I ✓ You cannot eject the cartridge
because the tape drive is in use.
Wait until the operation is complete
before ejecting the cartridge.
A manual or software
unload was attempted when
Prevent Medium Removal
was in force.
11 Cleaning media I
✓ The tape in the drive is a cleaning
cartridge.
A cleaning cartridge is
loaded in the drive.
12 Unsupported
format
I
✓ You have tried to load a cartridge of
a type that is not supported by this
drive.
Attempted load of an
unsupported tape format.
13 Recoverable
mechanical
cartridge failure
C
✓ The operation has failed because the
tape in the drive has experienced a
mechanical failure:
1. Discard the old tape.
2. Restart the operation with a
different tape.
The tape has snapped or
suffered some other
mechanical failure in the
drive, but the tape can still
be ejected.
14 Unrecoverable
mechanical
cartridge failure
C The operation has failed because the
tape in the drive has experienced a
mechanical failure:
1. Do not attempt to extract the tape
cartridge.
2. Call the tape drive supplier’s
helpline.
The tape has snapped or
suffered some other
mechanical failure in the
drive and the tape cannot
be ejected.
15 Memory chip in
cartridge failure
W
✓ The memory in the tape cartridge has
failed, which reduces performance.
Do not use the cartridge for further
write operations.
The LTO-CM chip has failed
in cartridge.
16 Forced eject C
✓ The operation has failed because the
tape cartridge was manually
de-mounted while the tape drive was
actively writing or reading.
A manual or forced eject
occurred while the drive was
writing or reading.
17 Read-only
format
C You have loaded a cartridge of a
type that is read-only in this drive.
The cartridge will appear as
write-protected.
A write command has been
attempted to a tape whose
format is read-only in this
drive.
18 Tape directory
corrupted on
load
W
✓ The tape directory on the cartridge
has been corrupted. File search
performance will be degraded. The
tape directory can be rebuilt by
reading all the data on the cartridge.
The drive was powered
down with a tape loaded, or
a permanent error prevented
the tape directory being
updated.
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