HP Edgeline EL1000, User Manual

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Hot-plug drive LED definitions Hot-plug drive LED definitions
When a drive is configured as part of a Smart Array and connected to a powered-up controller, the drive LEDs indicate the condition of
the drive. If no Smart Array adapter is present, then these drives will not be hot pluggable, but will still show the activity LEDs.
Item Item LED LED Status Status Definition Definition
1 Locate Solid blue The drive is being identified by a host application.
Flashing blue The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an update.
2 Activity
ring Rotating green Drive activity
Off No drive activity
3 Do not
remove Solid white Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive causes one or more of the logical
drives to fail.
Off Removing the drive does not cause a logical drive to fail.
4 Drive
status Solid green The drive is a member of one or more logical drives.
Flashing green The drive is rebuilding or performing a RAID migration, strip size migration,
capacity expansion, or logical drive extension, or is erasing.
Flashing
amber/green The drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predicts the drive will fail.
Flashing amber The drive is not configured and predicts the drive will fail.
Solid amber The drive has failed.
Off The drive is not configured by a RAID controller.
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