Determine Media Drive Health By Viewing Led Status - Avid Technology FastServe Live Edit Setup Manual

Media Drive Example
• The left Power/Activity LED (blue) is solid when a drive has power and flashes when the drive
is in use.
• The right Fault LED (red) is lit when an error is detected, or if the drive is rebuilding or
initializing. It flashes fast when it is initializing or rebuilding an array. It flashes slow when there
is a suspected problem with the drive.

Determine Media Drive Health by Viewing LED Status

This topic provides information on how to assess the health of your media drives by looking at the
LEDs on the front panel of the server. The following table provides some example LED states,
corresponding drive states, and required actions.
Media Drive LEDs
Power/Activity
(Blue) LED
On solid
Activity
(flashing)
On solid/
Activity
On solid/
Activity
Activity
(flashing)
Fault
(Red)
LED Drive State
Off On-line Inactive - Indicates a healthy
online drive, with no disk I/O.
Off On-line Active - Indicates a healthy
online drive, with disk I/O. Also occurs
after import initialization when moving a
set of configured drives to a different
RAID array.
Fast Online Drive in a Failed Span - Indicates
flashing the media drive is online, but another
media drive in the same span may have
failed.
One LED The drive with the solid Red LED has
on Solid fully failed and had been removed from
the RAID array.
Fast Data Rebuilding - Indicates the media
flashing drive is rebuilding. Occurs when a drive
fails.
Action Required
None.
None.
Nothing needs to be done to the
flashing online media drives.
However, look for a failed (solid
Red LED) indicating a failed
media drive. If you find one,
replace it as soon as possible.
The failed (solid Red LED) media
drive should be replaced as soon as
possible.
None.
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