Purple LED ???

[FLGuy]

I flashed Alt-f to my DNS-323. Seems to be working after checking my two drives.
I noticed the power button and the two drive LEDs are purple now. Steady light no flashing. The only blue light now is the network.
When I flashed the box I choose the "Do not touch my drives" option during setup.

The status page shows:

Disks

Bay	Dev.	Model	Capacity	Power Status	Temp	Health
right	sda	Hitachi HDS721010CLA332	1000.2 GB	active or idle	38°C/100.4°F	passed
left	sdb	Hitachi HDS721010CLA332	1000.2 GB	active or idle	39°C/102.2°F	passed

RAID

Dev.	Capacity	Level	State	Status	Action	Done	ETA
md0	880.0 GB	raid1	clean	degraded	idle
md1	101.0 GB	linear	clean

Mounted Filesystems

Dev.	Label	Capacity	Available	FS	Mode	Dirty	Automatic FSCK in
md0		866.2GB	437.7GB	ext2	RW	*	37 mounts or 178 days
md1		99.4GB	99.3GB	ext2	RW	*	19 mounts or 178 days
sda4		486.2MB	475.3MB	ext2	RW	*	16 mounts or 178 days
sdb4		486.2MB	483.8MB	ext2	RW	*	29 mounts or 178 days

Anything I need to do or is this okay?
Thanks

[FLGuy]

Some more information that might help. I don't know much about command line but I found this line in one of the other posts and ran it.
Here is the log

# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
        Version : 0.90
  Creation Time : Tue Feb  1 21:36:17 2011
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 922749376 (880.00 GiB 944.90 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 922749376 (880.00 GiB 944.90 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
Preferred Minor : 0
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Fri Jul 13 18:34:14 2012
          State : clean, degraded
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           UUID : 01e2fa47:12e7faa6:06a4a40d:274ef8cc
         Events : 0.4214443

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8        2        0      active sync   /dev/sda2
       1       0        0        1      removed
#

[Joao Cardoso]

You should read the AboutButtonsAndLeds wiki, the RAID help page (hit the (?) icon near the page title), and finally my comment on Issue 59 .

Shortly: as the status page shows in red (and the leds in orange), your RAID is degraded, i.e., it is using only one disk and offers no redundancy. This might happened when you used only one disk on the box.

This can also be seen in the Disk->RAID web page, that should show only on RAID component available, sda2. Usually RAID1 under the DLink firmware (md0) is built with two components, sda2 and sdb2.

You can check that sda2 and sdb2 are indeed the two md0 components by using the command

   mdadm --examine /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2

and verifying that its UUID is the same and the same as the md0 UUID from your second post. They should be.

To fix the RAID you have to re-add the sdb2 component to the RAID.

In the RAID web page, RAID Maintenance section, select in the md0 line,

   Component Operations, Partition, select sdb2, then in 

   Component Operations, Operation Add.

A resync or rebuild should start and it might take several hours to accomplish, but you can watch its evolution in the Status Page. You can continue using the RAID as usual. At the end the leds should became blue and the red degraded warning in the Status and RAID page disappear.

To avoid the lengthy resync in the future, and this is issue 59 related, it is better to add a write-intent-bitmap to the RAID:

In the RAID web page, RAID Maintenance section, select in the md0 line,

   Raid Operations->Create Bitmap.

That's it.

[FLGuy]

Again I thank you.
I checked sda2 and sdb2. Both had the same UUID as md0 so I'm doing the recovery now. 25% so far :)
As soon as its done I'll create the bitmap.
My LEDs were not the same orange color that they blink when the power button is held in. They actually look purple. Orange and blue I guess.