Chapter 8 Hardware Reference
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ContentDirector 1000F and High Performance ContentDirector 2000C
System Status LEDs
Drive Status and Activity LEDs
Figure 8–5 and Table 8–6 describe the drive indicators and their functions.
Figure 8–5: ContentDirector Drive Indicators
Table 8–6: Drive Indicator Patterns (RAID Only)
IMPORTANT: Do not turn off power when replacing a drive. As soon as the new drive is inserted, the
system will begin replicating the data from the other drives.
Table 8–5: System Status LED Pattern
Color State Description
Off System is off.
Green solid on System is on and its status is healthy.
blink Non-critical warning: The system is operating in a redundant or
degraded state but still functional. A loss of redundancy may
have occurred, such as a power supply unit or fan.
Amber blink Non-fatal warning: The system is likely to fail, but is still working.
A critical threshold may have been crossed, such as temperature
or voltage, or a disk drive failure has occurred.
solid on Fatal alarm: The system has failed or shut down.
Drive Indicator Indicator Pattern Condition
Drive Status Off No access and no fault
Steady amber Hard drive fault has occurred
Blinks amber RAID rebuild in progress
Drive Activity Off Power on with no drive activity, drive spun
down or drive spinning up
Blinks on when processing a
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Power on with drive activity
Drive-status Indicator (amber)
Drive-activity Indicator (green)