Re: Flashing lights on my disk drives on an Alphaserver ES40

From: Fabio Cardoso (fabiopenvms_at_yahoo.com.br)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: 27 Jan 2004 05:11:16 -0800

rcbryan@hotmail.com (RC Bryan) wrote in message news:<fbcf38dc.0401261730.211c64e0@posting.google.com>...
> 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

Try first !

>>> SHOW DEVICE

Regards

FC

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