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#1 2008-05-07 14:35:20

mrmcd
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Registered: 2008-01-25
Posts: 7

What do the LED colors mean?

I upgraded firmware to 1.04 and put in a new drive yesterday. Up until now, the only color I have ever seen from the DNS 323 is blue.  Now the HDD light and the Dlink button sometimes appear in a purple color, and I usually can't access the drives when I see this.

I'm sure the color is supposed to tell me something, but I can't find any listing of the colors and what they mean! Does anyone know?

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#2 2008-05-07 15:23:45

fordem
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Registered: 2007-01-26
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Re: What do the LED colors mean?

It's in your manual.

Essentially blue = good, any other color - amber, pink, white, purple = bad.  It is supposed to be an amber LED, but the unit is apparently energizing both blue & amber simultaneously and the colors are reported differently as perceived by different people.

What drives are you using and what configuration (standard, RAID0/1, JBOD) are they in?

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#3 2008-05-08 06:23:18

mrmcd
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Registered: 2008-01-25
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Re: What do the LED colors mean?

The drives are a 250gb Western Digital drive and a 750 gb samsung.

So some good news and bad news:

The good news is that I reverted to the 1.03 firmware and now my lights stay blue.

The bad news is that I can no longer access the drives across the network (via samba)



The behavior on 1.04 was bizarre.. It would boot, and read the right slot (250gb WD) for a couple minutes. Both lights would be blue. I would then try to access the drives across the network and it wouldn't work. A few minutes later and the lights would turn purple.

I'm kind of stumped and would like to access my data again... and somehow have the bad feeling this is going to require reformats or new drives...

Any insight from anybody would be appreciated.

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