tworhythms Posted March 20, 2016 Share #1 Posted March 20, 2016 Hi All! Brand new to XPenology and so far, I'm loving it! The server configuration is a bit overkill but I was initially going to use this configuration with FreeNAS and then decided to try XPenology. Here is my configuration: Dell R710 (32 GB RAM) with LSI 9200-8e flashed with IT firmware - connected to Supermicro 2u 12 Bay Chassis (JBOD) Experimenting with 2 x 3TB drives before loading up the enclosure with the final drive configuration (8 x 6TB WD Red). Everything installed fine and the drives are reporting properly. System health is good (drives are brand new). So, here's where things get interesting... the drive carrier LEDs on the Supermicro chassis are flashing RED all the time? If I shutdown the R710, the LEDs on the Supermicro remain flashing until I soft reset the enclosure. Then, the LEDs are off until XPenology boots and then start flashing red again. Does anyone have any ideas? Please be gentle as I'm not a "linux" first guy (Windows IT Admin) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbv3000 Posted March 20, 2016 Share #2 Posted March 20, 2016 I'd suspect that there is some proprietary LED controller circuitry on the supermicro backplane/chassis that only works when connected to the 'right' supermicro server/controller combination to receive LED commands. When XPE boots and loads the drivers for the controller that probably triggers the LEDs to start flashing (some sort of boot up sequence) but as there are no other control signals they just stay flashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tworhythms Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted March 20, 2016 Thanks for the quick response! I was thinking the same thing... Apparently, when the drive light is flashing red it indicates something is not happy with SMART. Does XPenology put up a fuss when using non-NAS rated drives by any chance? These LEDs didn't flash when I tried this setup under Windows or FreeNAS. The temporary drives are Seagate ST3000s. I also read that FreeBSD can't make use of these LEDs but Linux can so, perhaps that's why they didn't complain under FreeNAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBK Posted March 21, 2016 Share #4 Posted March 21, 2016 You properly just need the correct driver... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tworhythms Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share #5 Posted March 21, 2016 I'm not certain but isn't the 9200-8e LSI card covered by the mpt2sas driver? My 9200-8e card is running P20 IT Firmware if that makes any difference and the chassis has the BPN-SAS2-836EL2 expander chip (not EL1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tworhythms Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted March 21, 2016 Well, upon further research; I found a video on YouTube that shows three different variations of SuperMicro drive LED blink patterns. Mine is flashing quickly which could point to a disk that is being located or marked. I'm now wondering if, when XPenology boots, it locates the drives and inadvertently sets them to flash by that process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBK Posted March 22, 2016 Share #7 Posted March 22, 2016 I think the LEDs are controlled by the sata_syno_achi_diskled_set(...) function in /kernel/drivers/ata/libahci.c, you can grab the source from https://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/files and take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanedo Posted March 22, 2016 Share #8 Posted March 22, 2016 I can tell you how to turn them off. You should be able to find twelve 'locate' files under /sys/class/enclosure/*/*. You might have to do some directory traversal before you can find them. Once you do, change the content of each of the locate file from "1" to "0" and save. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tworhythms Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share #9 Posted March 22, 2016 Thanks, Kanedo! That's exactly what I was hoping for... I probably won't be able to try this for a week or so as I had to bring the original storage server back online. I'll post an update once I try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanedo Posted March 23, 2016 Share #10 Posted March 23, 2016 It will work. I've done this on two 24 bay supermicro servers with SAS2 expander backplanes. You will want to write a startup script to do this once you get it working as the red locate LEDs will light up again after reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tworhythms Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share #11 Posted March 23, 2016 That's great. Thanks again for the help. On a side note - any idea why this would even be enabled by default? Seems like something better off being disabled to start with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanedo Posted March 23, 2016 Share #12 Posted March 23, 2016 That's great. Thanks again for the help. On a side note - any idea why this would even be enabled by default? Seems like something better off being disabled to start with... That I do not know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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