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•Empty HDD Slot LED
From firmware version 1.39 date: 04/01/2006 and later, the firmware has added the "Empty HDD Slot LED" option to setup the Failed LED light "ON "or "OFF". When each slot has a power LED for the HDD installed identify, user can set this option to "OFF". Choose this option "ON", the failed LED light will flash red light; if no HDD installed.
•HDD SMART Status Polling
An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status to the controller. However, PCI type controllers do not use backplanes if the drives are internal to the main server chassis. The type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the controller. For this reason, HDD SMART Status Polling was added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in the version 1.36 date:
The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting to enable the Polling function.
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