Hot-Plug Drive Led Definitions - HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 Maintenance And Service Manual

Hot-plug drive LED definitions

Item LED
Locate
1
Activity ring
2
Do not remove
3
Drive status
4
The blue Locate LED is behind the release lever and is visible when illuminated.
IMPORTANT: The Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller is only available in UEFI Boot
Mode. It cannot be enabled in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode. If the B140i controller is disabled,
drives connected to the system board Mini-SAS connectors operate in AHCI or Legacy mode.
Under this condition:
• The drives cannot be a part of a hardware RAID or a logical drive.
• The Locate, Drive status, and Do not remove LEDs of the affected drives are disabled.
Use BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) in the UEFI System Utilities
Utilities" on page 72) to enable or disable the B140i controller (System Configuration →
BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) → System Options → SATA Controller Options →
Embedded SATA Configuration).
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 performing a RAID migration, strip size
migration, capacity expansion, or logical drive extension, 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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