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[aglio]

i took a look at the PDF manual and didn't see any mention of a "purple" indicator.

i know amber means a failed drive...but what about purple?  how do i remedy it?

thanks!

[D-Link Multimedia]

i took a look at the PDF manual and didn't see any mention of a "purple" indicator.

i know amber means a failed drive...but what about purple?  how do i remedy it?

thanks!

There is no purple indicator light.....

Does it come on even if there are no hard drives in the unit? Also subject says right hard drive indicator. Is the left indicator blue?

[aglio]

There is no purple indicator light.....

Does it come on even if there are no hard drives in the unit? Also subject says right hard drive indicator. Is the left indicator blue?

i'll take a pic and post tonight.  yes left is blue.  there are two identical drives in the unit.

[aglio]

i give you, purple

[dicrouthamel]

i give you, purple

Bonus - matches the background of the quote boxes here   Is the light always purple?  Probably a bad or different LED?

[chuckv]

actually, i have seen this on my box as well before. couldnt explain the reason why it appeared and cant remember if i posted it on another forum about this same topic. however, my unit only had 1 HD in it (as it still does now) and since then, that light has now gone blue.. why? got no clue

[fordem]

I think that is what is considered an "amber" LED.

I've seen it once on mine, if I recall correctly, I was fooling around with JBOD trying to get an idea of how it would react if a drive failed - it was, so to speak an "induced" drive failure, and of course it went away after I reformatted the drives.

[aglio]

I think that is what is considered an "amber" LED.

I've seen it once on mine, if I recall correctly, I was fooling around with JBOD trying to get an idea of how it would react if a drive failed - it was, so to speak an "induced" drive failure, and of course it went away after I reformatted the drives.

ugh...

that's amber?

hmm i'm going to try pulling the drive out and putting it back and seeing what happens.

any other suggestions?  i'm assuming that since it's in a RAID configuration i can try and rebuild that disk from the other, right?

[aglio]

Bonus - matches the background of the quote boxes here   Is the light always purple?  Probably a bad or different LED?

not a bad LED either, it's blue when the thing starts up

[JonClaud]

Hi aglio,
            As you are aware there are 2 led states, Blue when the drive is working OK and Amber when it is defective. I think your idea of switching drives and observing to see if the drive rebulids (mirrored drives), would be a good indicator if the drive was bad or not. Just to be safe, always backup important data before you try this.

[ECF]

Does it look as if both LED's are lit up to appear purple?

[aglio]

Does it look as if both LED's are lit up to appear purple?

nope, just the right one....the one on the left is DEFINITELY blue/darker.

[ECF]

No. I meant the blue and amber LED are both on at the same time?

[Macfoo]

I saw this when updating the firmware it seemed to be both LED (amber and blue) illuminating at the same time on the right side bay. that drive was not in sync with my RAID1 when I updated so there was already an issue. After the update was done I removed the partition on that drive and inserted it into the DNS-323 and the DNS-323 did the formatted and re-sync with the working RAID1 drive and all was better.

[aglio]

I saw this when updating the firmware it seemed to be both LED (amber and blue) illuminating at the same time on the right side bay. that drive was not in sync with my RAID1 when I updated so there was already an issue. After the update was done I removed the partition on that drive and inserted it into the DNS-323 and the DNS-323 did the formatted and re-sync with the working RAID1 drive and all was better.

is there an easy way to remove the partition so it'll rebuild w/o putting it into a computer?  perhaps i'm being a little lazy but all of my PCs are sitting in the basement, packed up...with nothing but apple laptops upstairs.