Disk drives, Disk drive leds, Disk drive blanks – HP D3000 Disk Enclosures User Manual
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Disk drives
A variety of disk drive models are supported for use, including dual-ported and single-ported
models. For more information, see the QuickSpecs for the disk enclosure, available on the D3000
website.
Disk drives are hot-pluggable.
Disk drive LEDs
Two LEDs indicate drive status.
NOTE:
Both the HP D3600 LFF and D3700 SFF drive carrier system use I2C communication for
drive authentication, failure and configuration info, activity animation and enhanced LEDs.
Definition
Status
Indicator
Location
The drive is being identified by a
host application.
Solid blue
1 Locate
Drive activity
Rotating green
2. Activity ring
No drive activity
Off
Do not remove the drive.
Removing the drive causes one
Solid white
3. Do not remove
or more of the logical drives to
fail.
Drive is safe to remove. Will not
cause a logical drive to fail.
Off
The drive is a member of one or
more logical drives.
Solid green
4. Drive status
The drive is rebuilding or
performing a RAID migration,
Flashing green
stripe size migration, capacity
expansion, or logical drive
extension, or is erasing
The drive is a member of one or
more logical drives and predicts
the drive will fail.
Flashing
amber/green
The drive is not configured and
predicts the drive will fail.
Flashing amber
The drive has failed.
Solid amber
The drive is not configured by a
RAID controller.
Off
Disk drive blanks
To maintain the proper enclosure air flow, a disk drive or a disk drive blank must be installed in
each drive bay. The disk drive blank maintains proper airflow within the disk enclosure.
Disk drives
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