Curiosity, what firmware on the 9201 card? - Rich
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Chad Cantwell <[email protected]> wrote: > By a stroke of luck I found a (hardware) solution to the problem. The chenbro > chassis has an "LED board" that uses a small signal cable to connect the > backplanes > together. I found that with a backplane detached from the LED board, the > activity LEDs on that backplane would work immediately. It turned out that > one of the settings on the LED board was a dip switch on the board which > toggles > "HDD staggered spinup" (default off). I believe the board must try to turn > this > off through some manipulation of HDD pin#11, which apparently is used either > for > disk activity or for staggered spinup (or both?) depending on implementation > by > manufacturer. By flipping the staggered spinup switch to the on position, now > all disks indicate activity normally on the backplanes and LED board. > > Chad Cantwell > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21253829-71dc39ef > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
