Lenovo RD540 manual Hot-swap hard-disk-drive status LEDs, RAID card

Hot-swap hard-disk-drive status LEDs

Each hot-swap hard disk drive has two status LEDs on the front.

Figure 17. Hot-swap hard-disk-drive status LEDs

		hard-disk-drive activity LED		hard-disk-drive RAID status LED	Description
	1		2
Off			Off		The hard disk drive has failed or is
					not present.
On, green			Off		The hard disk drive is present but not
					in use.
Blinking, green			Off		The hard disk drive is active and data
					is being transferred.
On, green			Blinking rapidly (about four flashes		The RAID controller is identifying the
			per second), amber		hard disk drive.
On, green			On, amber		The RAID array has failed and cannot
					be recovered. You need to recreate a
					new array.
Blinking, green			Blinking slowly (about one flash per		The hard disk drive is being rebuilt.
			second), amber

RAID card

This topic provides information to help you locate the connectors on a RAID card installed on the riser card assembly 2.

Your server comes with a RAID card to provide advanced SATA/SAS hardware RAID functions to the server. For more information, refer to “Replacing the RAID card” on page 85.

Your server supports the following RAID cards:

•ThinkServer RAID 500 Adapter (also known as ThinkServer 9240-8i RAID 0/1 Adapter)

•ThinkServer RAID 700 Adapter (also known as ThinkServer 9260-8i SAS RAID Adapter)

•ThinkServer RAID 710 Adapter (also known as 9270CV-8i RAID adapter)

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