3Ware 9550SXU-16ML User Guide - Page 198

Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED, Information > Drive Information, Blink

Page 198 highlights

Chapter 9. Maintaining Units Notes: If a unit that requires initialization has not previously been initialized, selecting Verify Unit starts initialization. This is because fault-tolerant units cannot be verified until after they are initialized. If the unit is already in a state of rebuild, initialization, or verification, the unit cannot be verified in 3BM. You must boot the system and let the task finish in the background. Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED When you have drives installed in a supported chassis with an LED display and have connected the I2C connector on the 3ware RAID controller to the chassis, you can locate individual drives by blinking their associated LED. Note: Drive Locate will be supported by chassis vendors. This feature requires a chassis with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU). The CCU will also support the monitoring of fan speed, temperature sensors, door lock, and so forth, depending on the level of chassis vendor support. Check the 3ware support web site for future updates on a list of chassis vendors that support the CCU, as they become available. You can issue the command to blink the LED through 3DM and through the CLI. For details about using the CLI, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. To blink the LED for a drive 1 Choose Information > Drive Information from the main menu in 3DM. 2 On the Drive Information page, identify the drive you want to physically locate. 3 Check the box in the Blink column. The LED on the chassis begins blinking. 4 When you are finished working with the drive and no longer need to see the LED, return to this page and uncheck the Blink box. 188 3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140
  • 141
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • 147
  • 148
  • 149
  • 150
  • 151
  • 152
  • 153
  • 154
  • 155
  • 156
  • 157
  • 158
  • 159
  • 160
  • 161
  • 162
  • 163
  • 164
  • 165
  • 166
  • 167
  • 168
  • 169
  • 170
  • 171
  • 172
  • 173
  • 174
  • 175
  • 176
  • 177
  • 178
  • 179
  • 180
  • 181
  • 182
  • 183
  • 184
  • 185
  • 186
  • 187
  • 188
  • 189
  • 190
  • 191
  • 192
  • 193
  • 194
  • 195
  • 196
  • 197
  • 198
  • 199
  • 200
  • 201
  • 202
  • 203
  • 204
  • 205
  • 206
  • 207
  • 208
  • 209
  • 210
  • 211
  • 212
  • 213
  • 214
  • 215
  • 216
  • 217
  • 218
  • 219
  • 220
  • 221
  • 222
  • 223
  • 224
  • 225
  • 226
  • 227
  • 228
  • 229
  • 230
  • 231
  • 232
  • 233
  • 234
  • 235
  • 236
  • 237
  • 238
  • 239
  • 240
  • 241
  • 242
  • 243
  • 244
  • 245
  • 246
  • 247
  • 248
  • 249
  • 250
  • 251
  • 252
  • 253
  • 254
  • 255
  • 256
  • 257
  • 258
  • 259
  • 260

Chapter 9. Maintaining Units
188
3ware 9550SX Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
Notes:
If a unit that requires initialization has not previously been
initialized, selecting Verify Unit starts initialization. This is
because fault-tolerant units cannot be verified until after they
are initialized.
If the unit is already in a state of rebuild, initialization, or
verification, the unit cannot be verified in 3BM. You must boot
the system and let the task finish in the background.
Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
When you have drives installed in a supported chassis with an LED display
and have connected the I
2
C connector on the 3ware RAID controller to the
chassis, you can locate individual drives by blinking their associated LED.
Note:
Drive Locate will be supported by chassis vendors. This
feature requires a chassis with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU). The
CCU will also support the monitoring of fan speed, temperature
sensors, door lock, and so forth, depending on the level of chassis
vendor support. Check the 3ware support web site for future
updates on a list of chassis vendors that support the CCU, as they
become available.
You can issue the command to blink the LED through 3DM and through the
CLI. For details about using the CLI, see
3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID
Controller CLI Guide
.
To blink the LED for a drive
1
Choose
Information > Drive Information
from the main menu in 3DM.
2
On the Drive Information page, identify the drive you want to physically
locate.
3
Check the box in the
Blink
column.
The LED on the chassis begins blinking.
4
When you are finished working with the drive and no longer need to see
the LED, return to this page and uncheck the
Blink
box.