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Tape Stuck E Flashing The cartridge is stuck in the drive.
Action: Try forcing ejection. If this fails, call for ser-
vice.
Unloading S — Either the drive is unloading a cartridge, or a car-
tridge is being ejected from the drive and replaced in
the magazine.
UpgradeErr E Flashing An error occurred while upgrading the firmware.
Worm Media E Flashing A high error rate has been detected while writing,
suggesting that the tape is nearing the end of its
useful life.
Action: Copy any data you wish to keep from the
cartridge onto a new cartridge and discard the old
cartridge.
Write x.y S — The drive is writing data to tape. “x.y:1” is the cumu-
lative compression ratio since power-on, or since
the compression ratio was last cleared. For exam-
ple, “Write 2.1” means a compression ratio of 2.1:1.
The compression ratio will only be displayed if 1 MB
or more data has been written since power-on.
Write Fail E Flashing A WRITE, WRITE FILEMARK or ERASE command
has failed.
Action: Use a new cartridge.
Write Fail:
Clean or Use New
Tape
E Flashing The drive could not write to the tape, which may be
worn or damaged.
Action: Insert a cleaning cartridge to clean the tape
heads, ensuring that the tape in the cleaning car-
tridge has not been used up, or use a new cartridge.
Write Protected
Tape
E Flashing A WRITE, WRITE FILEMARK or ERASE command
has been attempted on a write-protected cartridge.
Action: Remove the cartridge and change it to write-
enabled.
Wrong FW E Flashing The upgrade firmware is not compatible. The origi-
nal firmware is not changed or modified.