Empty Hdd Slot Led; Hdd Smart Status Polling - Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

WEB BROWSER-BASED CONFIGURATION
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Empty HDD Slot LED

From firmware version 1.39 date: 04/01/2006 or later, the firm-
ware has added the "Empty HDD Slot LED" option to setup the
Failed LED light "ON "or "OFF". When each slot has a power LED
for the HDD installed identify, user can set this option to "OFF".
Choose this option "ON", the failed LED light will flash red light;
if no HDD installed.
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HDD SMART Status Polling

An external RAID enclosure has the hardware monitor in the
dedicated backplane that can report HDD temperature status
to the controller. However, PCI cards do not use backplanes
if the drives are internal to the main server chassis. The
type of enclosure cannot report the HDD temperature to the
controller. For this reason, HDD SMART Status Polling was
added to enable scanning of the HDD temperature function in
the version 1.36 date: 2005-05-19 (and later). It is necessary
to enable "HDD SMART Status Polling" function before SMART
information is accessible. This function is disabled by default.
The following screen shot shows how to change the BIOS setting
to enable the Polling function.
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