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

 

 

 

any commands.

2

Green

DS8

Idle Task LED. This LED, with item 3 (DS7), indicates the amount of controller

 

 

 

CPU activity. See Table 3.

3

Green

DS7

Gas Pedal LED. This LED, with item 2 (DS8), indicates the amount of

 

 

 

controller CPU activity. See Table 3.

4

Green

DS6

Controller Heartbeat LED. This LED flashes every two seconds to indicate

 

 

 

controller health.

5

Green

DS5

Pending Command LED. Indicates that the controller is working on a

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

a controller error.

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