Probably just a warning state that the disks are not "dell certified"? Assuming you have a Dell PERC raid card, they normally give a warning on non-dell certified disks (even same model and make, but not dell branded disks give a warning). I think you need to do more digging, maybe get Dell OMSA working, so you can find out more.
John Barlow | Manager - IT Please note I only work Mondays and Tuesdays. nghenvironmental www.nghenvironmental.com.au | www.sumosystem.com.au suite 1, 216 carp street (po box 470) | bega nsw 2550 | australia T +61 (0)2 6492 8360 D +61 (0)2 6492 8317 M +61 (0)419 588 033 F +61 (0)2 6494 7773 We tweet! This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email you must not disseminate, copy or take action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error please notify nghenvironmental by email immediately and erase all copies of the message and its attachments. The confidential nature of, and/or privilege in the documents transmitted is not waived or lost as a result of a mistake or error in transmission. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of L A Walsh Sent: Monday, 26 June 2017 6:05 AM To: Poweredge Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] PwrEdge T610 w/MegaRaid SAS 1078 w/ SSD's - blink "orange", but "seem to work" 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
