Recognizing drive failure, Recognizing drive failure (legacy drives) – HP Smart Array P431 Controller User Manual
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Item LED
Status
Definition
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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.
The blue Locate LED is behind the release lever and is visible when illuminated.
Recognizing drive failure
Recognizing drive failure (legacy drives)
If any of the following occurs, the drive has failed:
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The fault LED illuminates.
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When failed drives are located inside the server or storage system and the drive LEDs are not visible, the
Health LED on the front of the server or server blade illuminates. This LED also illuminates when other
problems occur such as when a fan fails, a redundant power supply fails, or the system overheats.
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A POST message lists failed drives when the system is restarted, as long as the controller detects at least
one functional drive.
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HP SSA lists all failed drives, and represents failed drives with a distinctive icon.
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HP Systems Insight Manager can detect failed drives remotely across a network. For more information
about Systems Insight Manager, see the documentation on the Insight Management DVD or on the HP
website
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The HP System Management Homepage (SMH) indicates that a drive has failed.
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On servers with Windows operating systems, the Event Notification Service posts an event to the server
IML and the Microsoft Windows system event log.
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On servers with Linux operating systems, Linux agents log the event, creates an IML entry, and updates
/var/log/messages.
For more information about diagnosing drive problems, see HP ProLiant Gen8 Troubleshooting Guide,
Volume I: Troubleshooting.
CAUTION:
Sometimes, a drive that has previously been failed by the controller may seem to be
operational after the system is power-cycled or (for a hot-pluggable drive) after the drive has been
removed and reinserted. However, continued use of such marginal drives may eventually result in
data loss. Replace the marginal drive as soon as possible.