topic Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

chrobi — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:18:11 GMT

For some reason the light isn't coming on, on one of the spare hard drives. It's showing up in the raid controller. I did run diagnostics but that didn't show anything and while the blue light came up on all hard drives (including another spare), it did not on this particular one. I have rescanned the raid and the spare is showing up - so I'm not sure if the light is broken or if there's an issue with the hard drive?

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

Johan Guldmyr — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:16:45 GMT

Testing the disk in another bay would be interesting.

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

Goutham_Sabala — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:12:30 GMT

Usually spare hard drives do not have led on them as they are inactive and also as they are not part of any logical drive however if you run diags or choose a hard drive in ACU , spare should blink led as well like as you have mentioned for another spare hard drive, swap the hard drives around to see if it is the backplane( as backplane holds the led path ) or if it is hard drive itself.

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

chrobi — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:11:13 GMT

there are 2 arrays set up on that server, the spare hdd in array 1 is 750GB and the spare hdd in array 2 is 1TB - wouldn't swaping them around for a few mins mess things up?

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

Goutham_Sabala — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:16:13 GMT

Ideally it should not mess things as the spare is being moved around , Im guessing that their no empty slot on the server or may be a different server ?

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

chrobi — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:32:41 GMT

don't have any empty slots - it's the same server just have 2 arrays

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

Goutham_Sabala — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:19:06 GMT

as it is a spare hard drives that are being moved around.. should not have any issues

Re: ProLiant DL180 G6 - raid - spare drive - no light

Fayez — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:01:45 GMT

As this document from HP it is normal:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=3884339&prodTypeId=15351&objectID=c00596191