Drive Shuttle Indicator LEDS and What They Mean

Each drive shuttle has a set of five indicator LEDs located on the front panel. These LEDs are active when the drive shuttle is inserted into the recorder. See below Figure 14 and Table 13 below taken from the DVR Express Core 2 Manual.

                                                             

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