Drive procedures
Identifying the status of a legacy drive
Legacy drives are supported on ProLiant G7, and earlier, servers and server blades. Identify a legacy drive by its carrier, shown in the following illustration.
When a drive is configured as a part of an array and connected to a
Item Description
1Fault/UID LED (amber/blue)
2Online LED (green)
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On, off, or flashing | Alternating amber | The drive has failed, or a predictive failure alert has been received |
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| and blue | for this drive; it also has been selected by a management |
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On, off, or flashing | Steadily blue | The drive is operating normally, and it has been selected by a |
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| management application. |
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On | Amber, flashing | A predictive failure alert has been received for this drive. |
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| regularly (1 Hz) | Replace the drive as soon as possible. |
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On | Off | The drive is online, but it is not active currently. |
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Flashing regularly | Amber, flashing | Do not remove the drive. Removing a drive may terminate the |
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(1 Hz) | regularly (1 Hz) | current operation and cause data loss. |
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| The drive is part of an array that is undergoing capacity expansion |
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| or stripe migration, but a predictive failure alert has been received |
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| for this drive. To minimize the risk of data loss, do not replace the |
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| drive until the expansion or migration is complete. |
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