Flashing lights on my disk drives on an Alphaserver ES40

From: RC Bryan (rcbryan_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/27/04

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    Guys:

    My wonderful ES40 decided to hang, forcing me to press the big button
    on the front. When it came up again, it could not read from any DKA
    devices and the lights on my disk drives were all flashing together.

    The flash pattern is:
    On: 4 sec
    Off: 1/2 sec (or so, quite short)
    On: 1/2 sec (or so, quite short)
    Off: 1 sec
    On: 2 sec
    Off: 30 sec

    The disk drives say they are "36 GB Wide Ultra3 SCSI, HotPlug,
    [177986-001]"

    I looked and looked on the web and I can't find anything that gives
    this any meaning.

    Since it is unlikely all my drives would die at the same time, I
    figure there is probably something wrong with the SCSI bus.

    It pains me to get a service call without having any idea what is
    going on.

    Any ideas anybody? Is this in some kind of manual I should have been
    able to find this in?

    Thanks,
    /RC Bryan

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