Smart Carrier (SC) drive LED definitions
Item LED Status Definition
1 Locate Solid blue The drive is being identified by a host application.
Flashing blue The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an update.
2 Activity
ring
Rotating green Drive activity
O No drive activity
3 Do not
remove
Solid white Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive causes one or more of the logical
drives to fail.
O Removing the drive does not cause a logical drive to fail.
4 Drive
status
Solid green The drive is a member of one or more logical drives.
Flashing green
The drive is doing one of the following:
• Rebuilding
• Performing a RAID migration
• Performing a strip size migration
• Performing a capacity expansion
• Performing a logical drive extension
• Erasing
• Spare part activation
Flashing amber/
green
The drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predicts the drive will fail.
Flashing amber The drive is not configured and predicts the drive will fail.
Solid amber The drive has failed.
O The drive is not configured by a RAID controller or a spare drive.
Drive box numbering
Front boxes
• SFF
Component identification
24