Hot-Swapping Hard Disk Drives; Determining Drive Status; Hard Disk Drive Carrier - MAXDATA PLATINUM 7200 IR User Manual

Hot-swapping Hard Disk Drives

The server supports five hot-swap drive carriers. Each carrier holds a standard one-inch high SCSI-
or SCSI- hard drive.
The procedures in this section describe how to determine drive status, remove a faulty drive, and
install a new drive. If a drive is in a redundant configuration, you can install or replace a hot-swap hard
disk drive without powering down the server.
CAUTION
To ensure proper airflow and server cooling, all drive bays must contain either a carrier with a hard
drive installed in it or a carrier with an air baffle installed.

Determining Drive Status

The drive carriers contain light-pipes that allow dual-color LED indicators to show through the bezel
to display the hard disk drive status, as shown by Figure 17.
Table 15. Hard Disk Drive Carrier
Item Description
A Latch
B Activity LED (green)
• On: SAS drive installed and working correctly
• Blinking: Hard drive is active
C Fault LED (amber)
• On: Hard drive or slot failure
• Slow blinking (~1 Hz): Predictive hard drive / slot failure or rebuild in process
• Fast blink (~2.5 Hz): Hard drive rebuild interrupted or rebuild on empty slot
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B
C
A
Figure 17. Hard Disk Drive Carrier
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