Next Steps; Monitoring Disk Drives With Adaptec Storage Manager - Adaptec SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID Controllers Installation And User Manual

Next Steps

If you are installing the controller driver and an operating system onto a bootable array,
continue with
If you are completing a standard installation onto an existing operating system, continue with
Installing the Driver on an Existing Operating System on page

Monitoring Disk Drives with Adaptec Storage Manager

Adaptec Storage Manager allows you to monitor the status of your SAS, SATA, or SCSI disk
drives. Within Adaptec Storage Manager, you can select a disk drive object and a command will
be sent to the backplane (for internal disk drives) or enclosure (for external disk drives). The
LED associated with that disk drive will flash. The following table describes the LED flash
states. For more information refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager Help.
Controller Device State
Failed
Rebuilding
Blink
Other
Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives
Creating a Bootable Array on page
Slot State
Device is faulty
Device is rebuilding
Identify the device
No error
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LED Flash State
On
Slow flash
Fast flash
Off
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