PE 1850 and 2850 blue front LED dead ?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Friday 15 May 2009, Karl Katzke wrote:
> We've had the blue light die on just about all of our 1850s over the
> past three years. We've replaced them all under warranty -- sometimes
> multiple times. One server's gone through three. It's been such a big
> problem (we have at least 15 1850s) that we've got the process for

I think we've lost about 10% of our leds (we have ~180 servers). I, however, 
consider the problem so minor that it has been ignore (nothing replaced).

> powering down, pulling all the drives, backplanes, fans, other things
> out and replacing the card, down to about five minutes.
>
> The problem with not replacing it is that sometimes the rest of the
> card, which contains the power button and a few other doodads, will
> croak.

Never seen this (we do most often use IPMI, not the mechanical button 
though...)

/Peter

> It doesn't seem to be so much a batch of bad LEDs as it is a 
> batch of bad cards.
>
> -K
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