orange flashing drive light on PE6800
Carlos Antunes
cmantunes at nowthor.com
Thu Jul 26 09:50:39 CDT 2007
Patrick,
For those of us using afacli, is "Check Consistency" the same as
"container scrub"?
Thanks!
Carlos
Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> Depending on how the light is flashing this may be a SMART alert. If you
> have OMSA on the system it will indicate a predicted failure on the
> drive in question.
>
> The recommended procedure to fix this is:
> 1) Order replacement drive
> 2) Perform a Check Consistency on the VD in which this drive is a member
> 3) Once the Check has finished, Offline the drive
> 4) Remove the drive
> 5) Replace the drive
> 6) Rebuild should occur automatically, however if it does not:
> 6a) Assign the new drive as a hotspare to the degraded VD.
>
>
> Patrick Boyd
> Dell Storage Software Engineer
> (512)728-3182
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:50 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: orange flashing drive light on PE6800
>
> I came in this morning and my PE6800 w/ PERC4/DC has drive #5 with the
> orange light flashing under the heartbeat icon on the drive tray.
> Rebooted it, and the PERC4/DC did not say it had either of the logical
> drives degraded. So what does this indicate?
>
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