About Your System 13
* This condition is not supported in LSI HBA/RAID cards. When you abort the RAID rebuild process,
the hard-drive LED blinks amber to indicate drive failure.
Icon Indicator
Hard-drive activity indicator
Hard-drive status indicator
Hard-drive fault indicator
Table 1-1. Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns
Condition Hard-Drive Activity
Indicator
Hard-Drive
Status and Fault Indicators
Green LED Green LED Amber LED
Drive bay empty Off Off Off
Drive idle Off Off Off
Drive online/access On 50 ms
Off 50 ms
On Off
Drive identify/Preparing
for removal
On 100 ms
Off 100 ms
On 250 ms
Off 250 ms
Off
Drive rebuilding On 500 ms
Off 500 ms
On 400 ms
Off 100 ms
Off
Drive failed Off/Blinking
when active
Off On 150 ms
Off 150 ms
Predicted drive failure
(SMART)
Off/Blinking
when active
On 500 ms
Off 500 ms
Off 1000 ms
Off 500 ms
On 500 ms
Off 1000 ms
Drive rebuilding aborted* Off/Blinking
when active
On 3000 ms
Off 9000 ms
Off 6000 ms
On 3000 ms
Off 3000 ms