Lenovo ThinkServer RD330 - 2.6 RAID Configuration Strategies

Hot-swapharddiskdrivestatusLEDs
Eachhot-swapharddiskdrivehastwostatusLEDsonthefront.
Figure14.Hot-swapharddiskdrivestatusLEDs
1HarddiskdriveactivityLED2HarddiskdriveRAIDstatusLEDDescription
OffOff
Theharddiskdrivehasfailedoris
notpresent.
On,greenOff
Theharddiskdriveispresentbutnot
inuse.
Blinking,green
Off
Theharddiskdriveisactiveanddata
isbeingtransferred.
On,greenBlinkingrapidly(aboutfourashes
persecond),amber
TheRAIDcontrollerisidentifyingthe
harddiskdrive.
On,greenOn,amber
TheRAIDarrayhasfailedandcannot
berecovered.Youneedtorecreatea
newarray.
Blinking,green
Blinkingslowly(aboutoneashper
second),amber
Theharddiskdriveisbeingrebuilt.
RAIDcard
ThistopicprovidesinformationtohelpyoulocatetheconnectorsonaRAIDcardifyouhaveoneinstalled
ontherisercardassembly2.
SomeservermodelscomewithaRAIDcardtoprovideadvancedSATA/SAShardwareRAIDfunctionstothe
server.Formoreinformation,referto“InstallingorremovingtheRAIDcard”onpage85
.
Note:TheoptionkitfortheRAIDcardisdesignedfordifferenttypesofserversandmightcontainadditional
cablesthatarenotrequiredforyourserver.
YourserversupportsthefollowingRAIDcards:
•ThinkServerRAID500Adapter(alsoknownasThinkServer9240-8iRAID0/1Adapter)
•ThinkServerRAID700Adapter(alsoknownasThinkServer9260-8iSASRAIDAdapter)
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