We are using a Proliant 3000 (no RAID). All three of our hot swapable disks show amber lights from the moment that the system boots. They stay amber and show green when the disk is being accessed. We ignored this for the last 2 years without problems but our repair person says that the lights are an indication that something is wrong. All of our diagnostics and work with Compaq service folks (checked cables, updated firmware, etc.) has not corrected the problem. Has anyone else seen these symptoms?
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Proliant 3000 drive lights are amber
- Thread starter pfsmith
- Start date
Upgrade the system, controller and drive firmware. If you have already done this it is either a failing controller or the SCSI Backplane which the drive plug into. If these are non hotplug drives then the SCSI controller has failed, change it immemdiately.
Call Compaq Support and hopefully you still have warranty on this server to cover the new parts.
Good luck and pursue this immediately please.
Call Compaq Support and hopefully you still have warranty on this server to cover the new parts.
Good luck and pursue this immediately please.
- Status