Replacing, Moving, Or Adding Hard Drives; Drive Leds; Recognizing Drive Failure - HP Smart Array B140i User Manual

Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives

Drive LEDs

Dynamic Smart Array RAID controllers support drive LED illumination only on systems with backplane
support for drive LEDs.
In addition, Dynamic Smart Array RAID controllers support HPE Smart Carrier LED illumination. However,
LED functionality is provided only if the drives are authenticated through Smart Carrier.
Item LED
Locate
1
Activity ring
2
Do not remove
3
Drive status
4

Recognizing drive failure

If any of the following occurs, the drive has failed:
•
The drive status LED illuminates amber.
•
When failed drives are located inside the server or storage system and the drive LEDs are not
visible, the Health LED on the front of the server or server blade illuminates. This LED also
Status Definition
Solid blue The drive is being identified by a host application.
Flashing blue The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an
update.
Rotating green Drive activity
Off No drive activity
Solid white Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive causes one or
more of the logical drives to fail.
Off Removing the drive does not cause a logical drive to fail.
Solid green The drive is a member of one or more logical drives.
Flashing green The drive is rebuilding or is erasing.
Flashing The drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predicts
amber/green the drive will fail.
Flashing amber The drive is not configured and predicts the drive will fail.
Solid amber The drive has failed.
Off The drive is not configured by a RAID controller.
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