How do the Warnings and Alarms operate on the Index when Im archiving to tape ?
The alarms and warnings are available both as front panel LED indicators, and closing contacts on the rear of the Index, so that you can wire up your own alarms, sirens or visual indicators to alert you should you forget to change the tape when it is archived to fully. The ellipse below represents recordings being made to the hard-disk and then being archived to tape. IAt the start point, a tape has been fully archived, so the “Tape Full” LED illuminates. The hard disk fills up and when the amount equals the defined Buffer Size, the machine attempts to archive the information to tape. In the above example, the buffer size has been set to 250MB, so the 4GB of information available on a 4GB hard disk will be archived in 16 x 250MB sections. If no tape has been inserted, the “Tape Full” LED continues to be displayed until the Warning Time is reached. At this point, the “No Tape For Archive” Warning LED will illuminate indicating that you have the duration of the Warning Time left to inser
