John Barlow wrote:
> 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).
>
---
The controller for the internal disks is a Dell Perc card though none
of the disks used in it have been Dell "Certified" (came with 2x250GB
SATA's; that were replaced by 3x72GB 15k-SAS's for the OS).
> I think you need to do more digging, maybe get Dell OMSA working, so you can
> find out more.
>
----
Maybe so, was such a pain to get working last time but maybe worth it...
Don't expect much more info from it, except it might say they are
non-Dell or
such.
FWIW -- I left them in the machine, powered up, but unused, for ~3-4 months
(trying to make up my mind whether or not to put them to use) before I
got tired
of the blinking lights. The last test on them before removal still
showed them as "ok"... (though am not experienced w/determining or
recognizing pre-failure indicators on SSDs).
-l
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of L A Walsh
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> 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
>
>
>
>
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