Using Blink to work with your systems

When you click Blink for an object in the Enterprise view or Physical devices view, the Adaptec Storage Manager makes the hardware light associated with the selected object flash.

Depending on what you clicked, you can identify the following:

You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue flashing until you click OK in the message window.

Blink works only on controllers with a SAF-TE processor and the appropriate firmware. The processor uses a SCSI ID; therefore, it is displayed in the Physical devices view as the following:

Enclosure Enclosure management device

If a device light or a series of device lights do not flash, it is because all or part of the subsystem is not controlled by a SAF-TE processor.

For example, if SCSI channel 1 has a SAF-TE processor, but SCSI channel 3 does not, and you select to Blink all physical drives, only SCSI channel 1 will flash.

Blink is particularly useful for enclosures. You can use Blink to clarify which drives in the enclosure you need to work with, before you pull them out of the enclosure.

If a SAF-TE processor is present and the controller supports device identification, you can identify the components by doing the following:

Right-click: To Blink...
Controller Controller All physical drives on the controller
Enclosure Enclosure management device The enclosure itself
Logical device Logical device [number] All physical drives in the selected logical device
Physical drive [number] The selected physical drive.
Logical devices (Logical devices object) All physical drives in all logical devices
(Channel object) All physical drives on the selected channel
(Ports object) All physical drives on the selected ports

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