If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
proliant 1600
I have a proliant1600 with SCSI bay, 2 x 9.1Gb on positon 1 and 2 of the
SCSI bay. I replaced the second compaq 9.1Gb disk for a 36Gb SCSI IBM disk. After that the next day the original 9.1Gb disk got its red led on the drive on solid!!! I made an image of the first 9.1 Gb drive and put it on the 36Gb ibm drive, so all compaq drives are out the server now. But immediately the red led of the IBM drive went on!!!! What is the meaning of the red led of the SCSI drive??? Does it has to do with the SCSI backplane??? Or is there a procedure to replace a SCSI drive for a Compaq??? Everything is working fine, but the red-led does not pleas me Does anyone knows a solution for this??? -- Gerard Oderkerk |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
red/amber lights " typically " mean a failed drive.
If things are working properly, then you are pretty lucky. It may also be indicative of a SCSI ID issue. The drives ' should ' get thier ID's from the backplane, by way of the tray. I have heard reports of non-compaq drives going amber and still being fine in the system, and I have also heard of this happeneing when the controller discovers that the drive is not from compaq. This generally is not a problem, however compaq wont give you support on it, and you wont be able to take advantage of the prefailure warrenty that compaq is famous for. Have you installed he Insight Agents? I believe with your machine class, hey are required for proper LED reporting on the SCSI drives. Cheers, LC "Gerard Oderkerk" wrote in message ... I have a proliant1600 with SCSI bay, 2 x 9.1Gb on positon 1 and 2 of the SCSI bay. I replaced the second compaq 9.1Gb disk for a 36Gb SCSI IBM disk. After that the next day the original 9.1Gb disk got its red led on the drive on solid!!! I made an image of the first 9.1 Gb drive and put it on the 36Gb ibm drive, so all compaq drives are out the server now. But immediately the red led of the IBM drive went on!!!! What is the meaning of the red led of the SCSI drive??? Does it has to do with the SCSI backplane??? Or is there a procedure to replace a SCSI drive for a Compaq??? Everything is working fine, but the red-led does not pleas me Does anyone knows a solution for this??? -- Gerard Oderkerk |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Proliant 1600 second CPU ? | Dirk | Compaq Servers | 5 | November 14th 04 12:52 AM |
proliant 1600 problem with second cpu | Alexander Joelly | Compaq Servers | 5 | November 7th 03 06:07 PM |
FS: Qty. 11 Compaq Proliant Systems $1,500 - 3000, 4500, 5500's | 444UNIX | Compaq Computers | 0 | November 3rd 03 03:29 PM |
Compaq ready to go | Jazzy Ban | Compaq Computers | 0 | October 14th 03 02:54 PM |
Compaq Proliant 5500 won't power up | Jim Balson | Compaq Computers | 7 | September 19th 03 12:05 AM |