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Both online high-performance disk drives and FATA disk drives in a variety of capacities and

spindle speeds.

Better vibration damping for improved performance.

Up to 14 disk drives can be installed in a drive enclosure.

Disk drive status indicators

Three status indicators display the drive operational status.

Figure 15

shows the disk drive status

indicators.

Table 9

provides a description of each status indicator.

Figure 15 Disk drive status indicators

1. Activity

2. Online

3. Fault

Table 9 Disk drive status indicator descriptions

Status indicator

Description

Activity

This green status indicator flashes when the disk drive is

being accessed. It is on when the drive is idle.

Online

The green status indicator is on when the disk drive is

online and operating normally. This indicator will be off

in the following situations:

There is no controller on the bus.

+5.1 VDC is not available.

The drive is not properly installed in the enclosure.

Fault

This amber status indicator is on when there is a disk drive

failure. Depending on the host controller, this indicator may

flash when the controller detects an error condition.
The amber status indicator flashes in synchronization with

the other two status indicators in response to the EMU

locate command.

Disk drive status displays

The disk drive status indicators can assume three states: on, off, or flashing. The status indicators states

for operational drive status are shown in

Table 10

. See

Table 11

for the non-operational drive status

indicator states.

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