Conguration Maximum
Front Drives
Maximum Rear Drives Drive
Manageme
nt Mode
● [1]: The front drives in a server with 25 x 2.5-inch drives in Expander mode or
a server with 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives + 12 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs can
only be 2.5-inch drives, and the front drives in a server with 12 x 3.5-inch
drives in Expander mode or a server with 12 x 3.5-inch drives in pass-through
mode can only be 3.5-inch drives.
● [2]: I/O module 3 supports only 2.5-inch drives, and I/O modules 1 and 2
support 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives.
● [3]: CPU SAS pass-through requires a SAS riser card. By default, it is installed
on I/O module 2.
● [4]: The NVMe SSDs in slots 8 to 19 of a server with 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA
drives + 12 x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs support only PCIe 3.0.
● [5]: Servers with Kunpeng 920 5220 or 3210 processors do not support the
conguration of 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA pass-through drives.
2.6.2 SAS/SATA Drive Indicators
Figure 2-19 shows the SAS/SATA drive indicators.
Figure 2-19 SAS/SATA drive indicators
Table 2-10 Description of SAS/SATA drive indicators
Drive Activity
Indicator (Green
Indicator)
Drive Fault
Indicator (Yellow
Indicator)
Description
Steady on O The drive is in position.
Blinking at 4 Hz O Data is being read or written normally,
or data on the primary drive is being
rebuilt.
Steady on Blinking at 1 Hz The drive is being located by the RAID
controller card.
Blinking at 1 Hz Blinking at 1 Hz The data on the secondary drive is
being rebuilt.
O Steady on A member drive in the RAID array is
removed.
Steady on Steady on A member drive in the RAID array is
faulty.
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