topic Re: Hot swap drive indicator in Netservers

Hot swap drive indicator

Melvin_7 — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:19:06 GMT

i need to know the LEDS Indicator of a HDD Hot Swap is Filled in a Netserver LC2000.
A Led is Flashing RED Color always

Re: Hot swap drive indicator

Dave Unverhau_1 — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:20:24 GMT

Melvin,

Sorry to report that this indicates a failed drive.

I've attached an excerpt from the LC2000 install guide that provides full Hot-Swap LED info, for your reference.

Best Regards,

Dave

Re: Hot swap drive indicator

Dave Unverhau_1 — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:25:29 GMT

For some reason, the image that I tried to save in HTML form didn't upload correctly. Here's another try at the image in RTF format.

Best Regards,

Dave

Re: Hot swap drive indicator

Marino Meloni_1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 02:16:13 GMT

a red led flashing on the disk indicate that this disk has been marked as "failed " by the netraid controller. this mean that if it was part of a redundant raid ( raid 1 or raid 5) you still have your data but the raid is degraded. The red light do not mean the disk is broken, it may just had some hight amount of error due to communication, or may fail to sinup in time. You can still try to rebuild the raid with this drive if you do not see major errors.
In case of raid 0, (and only raid 0) you can try to force it on-line to try to recover your data.