Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drive Status Leds; Raid Card - Lenovo ThinkServer RD530 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Hot-swap hard disk drive status LEDs

Each hot-swap hard disk drive has two status LEDs on the front.
Figure 13. Hot-swap hard disk drive status LEDs
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Hard disk drive activity LED
Off
On, green
Blinking, green
On, green
On, green
Blinking, green

RAID card

This topic provides information to help you locate the connectors on a RAID card installed on the riser
card assembly 2.
Your server comes with a RAID card to provide advanced SATA/SAS hardware RAID functions to the server.
For more information, refer to "Replacing the RAID card" on page 80.
Your server supports the following RAID cards:
• ThinkServer RAID 500 Adapter (also known as ThinkServer 9240-8i RAID 0/1 Adapter)
• ThinkServer RAID 700 Adapter (also known as ThinkServer 9260-8i SAS RAID Adapter)
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Hard disk drive RAID status LED
Off
Off
Off
Blinking rapidly (about four flashes
per second), amber
On, amber
Blinking slowly (about one flash per
second), amber
Description
The hard disk drive has failed or is
not present.
The hard disk drive is present but not
in use.
The hard disk drive is active and data
is being transferred.
The RAID controller is identifying the
hard disk drive.
The RAID array has failed and cannot
be recovered. You need to recreate a
new array.
The hard disk drive is being rebuilt.