HP Dynamic Smart Array Controllers - Manual (Page 19)

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Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives
Drive LEDs
HP Dynamic Smart Array RAID controllers support drive LED illumination only on systems with backplane
support for drive LEDs.
In addition, HP Dynamic Smart Array RAID controllers support HP Smart Carrier LED illumination. However,
LED functionality is provided only if the drives are authenticated through HP Smart Carrier.
Item LED Status 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 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.
Recognizing hard drive failure