No lights on HDD

[runiuksp_1]

Hi,

I have 6 drives in my x1600 nas box. No errors at all but one of the hdd has no lights. All the other hdd's lights are on.
I've contacted HP and they sent me new hdd...but still same problem in the same bay.
Not sure what to do. Can't play with it much as it holds live data.

Thanks

[Trygve Henriksen]

Is the drive in at slot a member of a RAID, a hot spare, or unassigned?
(On some systems at least, unassigned or spares will not have any lights. )

[runiuksp_1]

It's a member of RAID 5.

Thanks

[Trygve Henriksen]

If it's a member of a RAID, then it really should have an indicator light.
Does it show up in the Administrator webpages?

Do you have a free slot you can move it to?

[runiuksp_1]

Hi,

I've tried on different port and HDD is fine.
LED lights come up and show activity.

Looks like just the one port on this bay is faulty...

[Terry Hutchings]

The LEDs for the drives are on the backplane the hard drives are plugged into. It's possible something may have crushed the LEDs for that drive slot. That would explain why the LEDs work when the drive is moved to a different slot. If this is caused by a backplane, it'll likely require service on the server to get the backplane swapped out.