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<h1>Using Blink to work with your systems </h1>
<p>When you click <b>Blink</b> for an object in the <a href="cusegui3.htm">Enterprise
  view</a> or <a href="cusegui4.htm">Physical devices view</a>, the HP Storage Manager
  makes the hardware light associated with the selected object <b>flash</b>. </p>
<p>Depending on what you clicked, you can identify the following: </p>
<ul>
  <li>A drive</li>
  <li>All drives </li>
  <li>A channel of drives </li>
  <li>A logical device </li>
  <li>All logical devices</li>
  <li>An enclosure</li>
</ul>
<p>You can make only one selection at a time. The hardware will continue flashing
  until you click <b>OK</b> in the message window. </p>
<p>Blink works only on controllers with a <a href="gsaf-te.htm">SAF-TE</a>
  processor and the appropriate firmware. The processor uses a SCSI ID; therefore,
  it is displayed in the Physical devices view as the following:</p>
<p><img src="images/processr.gif" width="28" height="20" alt="Enclosure"> Enclosure
  management device</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p> If a SAF-TE processor is present and the controller supports device identification,
  you can identify the components by doing the following:</p>
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<table width="689" border="2">
  <tr valign=top bgcolor="#C0C0C0">
    <td width="60%"><font size="+1"><b>Right-click:</b></font></td>
    <td width="40%"><font size="+1"><b>To Blink...</b></font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign=top>
    <td width="60%"> <img src="images/l_adapt.gif" width="28" height="28" alt="Controller">
      Controller</td>
    <td width="40%">All physical drives on the controller</td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign=top>
    <td><img src="images/l_procsr.gif" width="30" height="27" alt="Enclosure">
      Enclosure management device</td>
    <td>The enclosure itself</td>
  </tr>

  <tr valign=top>
    <td width="60%"><img src="images/l_logdr.gif" width="28" height="28" alt="Logical device">
      Logical device [number] </td>
    <td width="40%"> All physical drives in the selected logical device</td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign=top>
    <td width="60%"> <img src="images/l_pdrdy.gif" width="28" height="28" align="absbottom">
      Physical drive [number] </td>
    <td width="40%"> The selected physical drive.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr valign=top>
    <td> <img src="images/ldrvsldv.gif" alt="Logical devices" width="100" height="20">
      (<a href="troldrs.htm">Logical devices object</a>)</td>
    <td> All physical drives in all logical devices</td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign=top>
    <td><img src="images/chanlpdv.gif" width="69" height="19"> (<a href="troscsiq.htm">Channel
      object</a>)</td>
    <td>All physical drives on the selected channel</td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign=top>
    <td width="60%"> <img src="images/portspdv.gif" width="66" height="18"> (<a href="troports.htm">Ports
      object</a>) </td>
    <td width="40%"> All physical drives on the selected ports</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h2>More information</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="aiddrive.htm">Blinking devices (action)</a></li>
  <li><a href="cflashled.htm">HP Storage Manager and LED flash states</a></li>
</ul>

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