Promise Technology M300p, M500i, M500f, M500p, M300i, M300f, M200i Drive Status Indicators, LEDs State

VTrak M-Class Product Manual

Drive Status Indicators

There are two LEDs on each Drive Carrier. They report the presence of power and a disk drive, and the current condition of the drive.

Power/	Disk Status
Activity

Figure 3. VTrak M500f/i/p Drive Carrier LEDs.

Disk Status

Power/Activity

Figure 4. VTrak M300f/i/p and M200f/i/p disk carrier LEDs

The VTrak spins up the disk drives sequentially in order to equalize power draw during start-up. After a few moments the Power/Activity and Disk Status LEDs should display green.

LEDs			State
	Dark	Steady	Flashing	Amber	Red
		Green	Green
Power/	No Drive	Drive	Activity	n/a	n/a
Activity		Present
Status	No Power/	Drive OK	n/a	Drive	Drive
	No Drive			Rebuilding	Error

“n/a” means this state does not apply to this LED.

See “Critical & Offline Disk Arrays” on page 286 for a discussion of rebuilding and failed disk drives.

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