I have a T610 that I bought w/an internal HW PERC?-RAID
that linux shows as a LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 that
is supporting 8 internal 3.5" slots (I think 12 internal 2.5"
slots were an alternate model).
I have some old 15K SAS disks that I want to replace with
SSD's. Four of the slots are currently unused and I tried
putting in 4 Crucial-Brand Sata-Based SSD's I had sitting around as a
test run.
I thought I'd config them as a RAID10 for safety and the controller
indicated all were fine and had no problem configuring them for
that config. The composite disk shows up under Linux with the
expected storage size with "roughly" the expected performance
characteristics.
Problem that bothered me was that the slots that
had the SSD's in them would blink orange, that would normally,
I thin, be associated with a fault of some sort. The other three
populated slots with SAS drives continued working
normally and didn't blink orange, indicating that it was
only the 4 SSD's that were getting the blinking orange fault
indicator.
The LSI controller didn't indicate any problems with the disks (they
were 'fine' for RAID use) and Linux indicated no error, so I formatted
and ran full-disk R/W tests on them with no problems. The LSI card's
internal log and the BIOS's internal NVRAM log showed no problems with
the disks.
I checked to see that I had the lastest released Dell-ROM for that system
as well as checking for the latest updates for the controller from both
Dell's and LSI's (then Avago, now Broadcom's) websites and it appeared
I had the latest releases for the machine and the controller.
Any idea why the T610 would blink orange on SSD's? Any idea how
to get it to stop blinking orange?
I'd prefer to have it not falsely indicate a problem, but if
it's an unfixable firmware problem, is it something I might
just ignore?
Any insights, pointers or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Linda Walsh
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