5 Troubleshooting
This chapter provides an overview of troubleshooting resources.
Smart Array P411 controller board runtime LEDs
The Smart Array P411 Controller board has nine runtime LEDs that indicate activities and error conditions.
Figure 3 Smart Array P411 controller board runtime LEDs
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Table 2 Interpreting Smart Array 411 runtime LEDs
LED ID | Color | Name | LED name and interpretation |
1 | Amber | DS9 | System Error LED. The controller ASIC has locked up and cannot process |
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| any commands. |
2 | Green | DS8 | Idle Task LED. This LED, with item 3 (DS7), indicates the amount of controller |
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| CPU activity. See Table 3. |
3 | Green | DS7 | Gas Pedal LED. This LED, with item 2 (DS8), indicates the amount of |
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| controller CPU activity. See Table 3. |
4 | Green | DS6 | Controller Heartbeat LED. This LED flashes every two seconds to indicate |
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| controller health. |
5 | Green | DS5 | Pending Command LED. Indicates that the controller is working on a |
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| command from the host driver. |
6 | Green | DS4 | Activity LED for SAS port 1. |
7 | Green | DS3 | Activity LED for SAS port 2. |
8 | Amber | DS2 | Disk Failure LED. A physical disk connected to the controller has failed. See |
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| the Fault LED on each disk to determine the failed disk. |
9 | Amber | DS1 | Diagnostics Error LED. One of the server diagnostics utilities has detected |
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| a controller error. |
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