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Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
You can easily identify the drives in a unit, or an individual drive, by causing the LEDs associated with the drives to blink.
When you have drives installed in an enclosure that has an integrated AMCC/3ware CCU (chassis control unit) and have connected the I2C (chassis control) connector on the 3ware RAID controller to the chassis, you can locate individual drives by blinking their associated LED.

| Note: Drive Locate is supported by some chassis vendors. This feature requires a chassis with a Chassis Control Unit (CCU) designed according to AMCC/3ware specifications. Check the 3ware support web site for future updates on a list of chassis vendors that support the CCU, as they become available.

You can issue the command to blink the LED through 3DM.
(For details about what the different LED patterns on the enclosure mean, see Enclosure LED Status Indicators.)
To blink the LED for a drive

1 | Do one of the following:

| Choose Information > Drive Information from the main menu in 3DM. On the Drive Information page, identify the drive you want to physically locate.

| Choose Monitor > Enclosure from the main menu in 3DM. On the list of enclosures, click the ID number of the enclosure. On the Enclosure Detail page, identify the drive you want to physically locate.

2 | Check the box in the Identify column.

The LED on the enclosure begins blinking.

3 | When you are finished working with the drive and no longer need to see the LED, return to this page and uncheck the Identify box.

To blink the LEDs for all drives in a unit

1 | Choose from the main menu in 3DM.

2 | On the list of units, locate the unit you want to identify.

3 | Check the box in the Identify column.

The LEDs associated with each drive in the unit begin blinking on the enclosure.

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