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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  4 Sep 2009 10:10:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS
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> There's one multi-color (3-prong) LED responsible for this. Nominally,
> green should mean drive running and okay, alternating red should mean
> transfer, and orange (red + green) a disk failure. In case of 7200.11's

there's a standard for this
red	fail
orange	locate
green	activity

maybe you're enclosure's not standard.

> I tried changing the bay in which the disk sits and the anomaly follows the
> disk so I guess the backplane's okay.

since it's a single led and follows the drive, i think this is a voltage problem.
it just has to do with the fact that the voltage / pullup standard
changed.

> Um, I don't have that because I don't have any running Plan 9 instances,
> but I'll try finding it on the web (if it's been through man2html at some
> time).

http://sources.coraid.com/sources/contrib/quanstro/root/sys/man/3

- erik