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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: Clayton on November 25, 2009, 07:48:32 PM

Title: Front Panel Lights
Post by: Clayton on November 25, 2009, 07:48:32 PM

I have just noticed that the left drive light is red or is it pink? anyway it is and the right is blue, going into status it shows the left drive with no entries, model, serial number etc... is the drive poked?

Title: Re: Front Panel Lights
Post by: D-Link Multimedia on November 26, 2009, 01:49:51 AM

Try pulling the drive all the way out and re-seating it. Perhaps the connectors are not lined up. If that does not fix it, it is very possible the drive has died.

Title: Re: Front Panel Lights
Post by: Clayton on November 26, 2009, 11:06:58 AM

I have done that and it's still the same, unplugged it and tested it in another computer with seagate tools and says An over temperature condition was detected prior to the test starting. the drive is, or has been at 70 degrees C. do you want to continue to the test
On statup in the computer SMART detected it as BAD, so the pink light must mean SMART has been tripped, running test now for bad sectors/blocks and will report back on the result
The drive is a Seagate 1.5TB ST31500341AS

Title: Re: Front Panel Lights
Post by: fordem on November 26, 2009, 09:11:01 PM

Quote from: claytonb on November 26, 2009, 11:06:58 AM

On statup in the computer SMART detected it as BAD, so the pink light must mean SMART has been tripped, running test now for bad sectors/blocks and will report back on the result
The drive is a Seagate 1.5TB ST31500341AS

First - officially, there is no "pink" status light, it's supposedly, either blue or amber - blue=good, amber=failed - pink is not defined.

Second - to the best of my knowledge - the DNS-323 does not monitor S.M.A.R.T. status - not unless it was added in a recent firmware in which case it's not listed in the firmware notes - but - since your PC is reporting a S.M.A.R.T. failure, you do have a bad drive