Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED

When you have drives installed in a supported chassis with an LED display and have connected the I2C connector on the 3ware RAID controller to the chassis, you can locate individual drives by blinking their associated LED.

Note: Drive Locate will be supported by chassis vendors. This feature requires a chassis with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU). The CCU will also support the monitoring of fan speed, temperature sensors, door lock, and so forth, depending on the level of chassis vendor support. Check the 3ware support web site for future updates on a list of chassis vendors that support the CCU, as they become available.

You can issue the command to blink the LED through 3DM and through the CLI. For details about using the CLI, see 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide.

To blink the LED for a drive

Choose Information > Drive Information from the main menu in 3DM.
On the Drive Information page, identify the drive you want to physically locate.
Check the box in the Blink column.

The LED on the chassis begins blinking.

When you are finished working with the drive and no longer need to see the LED, return to this page and uncheck the Blink box.

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