Sun Microsystems 280R manual Internal disk drive LEDs

On the right side of each installed disk drive is a green indicator LED. These LEDs indicate the operating status associated with each disk drive. If the drive is being accessed its LED blinks. Continuous LED lighting indicates the drive is ready for the system to use.

Internal disk drive LEDs

The Solstice DiskSuite software supplied with the Solaris server media kit lets you use internal disk drives in two RAID configurations: RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring). You can also configure data drives as hot-spares. For more information on all supported RAID configurations, see “About Disk Array Configurations and Concepts” on page 87.

The hot-plug feature of the system’s internal disk drives allows the removal and installation of one of the drives (if two drives are configured) while the system is operational. This capability significantly reduces system down-time associated with disk drive replacement.

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