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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: kqmaverick on December 12, 2008, 01:04:20 PM
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Recently i noticed that my seconds DNS-323 lights change from the normal Blue to a more purple color. Some times its just that hard drive indicator lights and some times its all the lights. I know its not the Red/Orange failure light because i have seen that before and it is definitely a different color. What does a purple light mean? This unit also sometimes stop responding and i have to do a reboot to be able to access it again.
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i think that indicates RAID degradation...but i'm sure someone will confirm.
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im not using raid though ive been using spanning.
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Officially the LED can display two colors - amber, for a failed drive and blue, for a functional drive.
I've seen reports of white, pink & purple - which are either the different perceptions of the different viewers or different percentages of blue and amber depending on the duty cycle of the signal driving the LEDs - BUT - D-Link does not define any conditions related to any color other than blue or amber.
Since - whatever color you're seeing is blue+amber and amber is an error, then youhave a problem of some sort with the drive.
On the RAID degradation diagnosis - a failed drive will result in degradation (RAID1) or total loss of the array (RAID0).
I would suspect that by spanning you mean JBOD - you need to know that failure of either drive in a JBOD configuration can result in the loss of all data regardless of which drive it was stored on and which drive failed. You may be able to access your data - if you can, back it up whilst you still can.
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I've personally seen the pinkish/purple LED status. It only happens when I try to setup the NAS to use my two new Western Digital 500GB drives. For both slots, it trips at random regardless how I try and format them.
And yes, I ran full hardware diagnostics on both drives from another PC. They're fine.
It's obviously a hardware or firmware bug with the NAS, and *not* the drives. Who knows, maybe some drives such as mine draw more power than adapter can provide. At any rate, blue or amber should be the only status you see.