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Hardware Maintenance Tasks—MARS 100, 100E, 200, GCM, and GC
Hard Drive Troubleshooting and Replacement
This section comprises the following subsections:
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The term HDD is sometimes used throughout this section in place of hard disk drive, disk, or hard drive.
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Status Lights
Depending on the model of the appliance, each hard drive has two status lights under or next to the drive.
The following states can be determined based on the status lights:
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Partition Checking
The appliance automatically runs checks on different partitions of the hard drive after the system has
been re-booted 25 to 30 times, or if the appliance has not been re-booted in 180 days.
Hotswapping Hard Drives
If a hard drive fails in the MARS 50, 100, 100e, 200, GC, or GCm appliance models, the MARS
administrator receives an e-mail notification. The notification identifies the slot number of the failed
hard drive.
Overview of MARS RAID 10 Subsystem
This section pertains only to the MARS 100, 100E, 200, GCM, and GC appliances.
The following MARS Appliances are equipped with a Parallel IDE/ATA Redundant Array of
Inexpensive Disks (RAID) controller card:
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All other MARS appliances running software version 4.X or prior have software RAID controllers.
User Guide for Cisco Security MARS Local Controller
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Status Lights, page 24-12
Partition Checking, page 24-12
Hotswapping Hard Drives, page 24-12
RAID Procedures for MARS Appliances 100, 100E, 200, GCM, and GC, page 24-13
Procedures for the MARS RAID Utility, page 24-20
Hotswap CLI Example, page 24-19
A steady green light indicates that the drive is functioning normally.
A blinking orange light indicates that the drive is performing I/O operations.
No light indicates that the disk has no power.
CS-MARS-100E-K9
CS-MARS-100-K9
CS-MARS-200-K9
CS-MARS-GCM-K9
CS-MARS-GC-K9
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System Maintenance
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