HP SATA Hot Plug Activity Light & B120i Array Controller

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The activity rings on both of my hot plug drives rotates continuous (they are in RAID 1 configuration). The drive status on both is solid green.

Is this normal? The iotop command is showing no activity… Total Read/Write zero B/s.

Edit: However, I'm not sure if I'm using that command correctly. Just SSH'd while I had iotop on, it didn't pick up a file write…

Any advice would be great.

Thanks.

Best Answer

Whether there's read or write activity, the drives are still online and spinning!

Edit: This may just be a function of using the Dynamic Smart Array driver (hpvsa module).

HP explains the drive functions here.

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Please also see HP's video detailing their SmartDrive disk carrier.

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