NETGEAR SC101 manual Hardware, LED Indicators, Link or FritzBox Routers

Hardware

LED Indicators

This table describes how the SC101 LEDs work.

Light	Light State	What It Means	What You Should Do
All lights off	Off	SC101 has no power or	∙ Check if plug has power
		it is not plugged in
			∙ Plug in the SC101
Red disk light	Off	There is no disk activity	Normal state, do nothing
	On	There is disk activity	Normal state, do nothing
	Off	Self-test is not finished	Normal state, do nothing
	On	SC101 is working	Normal state, do nothing
		normally
	Fast constant	No working hard drives	Power off the SC101, insert working
	blinking	are inserted	hard drive
Green power			∙ If operation continues normally, do
	1 blink at		nothing.
status light		Error on disk 1
			∙ Back up the disk or replace it
	intervals (rare)
			because disk errors may lead to
			some unreadable files.
			∙ If operation continues normally, do
	2 blinks at	Error on disk 2	nothing.
			∙ Back up the disk or replace it
	intervals (rare)
			because disk errors may lead to
			some unreadable files.
	3 blinks at	DHCP network	See the User Manual on DHCP
	intervals	addressing problem
	4 blinks at	An older, incompatible	Power off the SC101, replace disk with
	intervals	disk is inserted	ATA6 IDE disk or newer
Yellow	Off	Disconnected cable	Check Ethernet cable connection
Ethernet status	On	No data is being	Normal state, do nothing
light		transferred over network
	Blinking	Data is being	Normal state, do nothing
		transferred over network

D-Link or FritzBox Routers

∙D-Link router continuously reboots: To fix this, upgrade the SC101 firmware to level 4.14.0.

∙FritzBox: Upgrade the router to FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050 new firmware 14.03.88 (Released on 10/28/05). Periodically check the FritzBox Web site to download new firmware for their products.

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