NETGEAR ReadyDATA 5200 User manual

350 East Plumeria Drive

San Jose, CA 95134

USA

December 2012

202-11024-03

ReadyDATA 5200

Hardware Manual

NETGEAR ReadyDATA 5200

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started

Front Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Status and Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Factory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 2 Expansion Disk Arrays

Front Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Status Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 3 Maintenance

Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Failed Disk Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Add a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Replace a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

System Interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Appendix A Warnings and Precautions

Safety Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Electrical Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

General Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Appendix B Notification of Compliance

1. Getting Started

Congratulations on your purchase of a NETGEAR® ReadyDATATM 5200. This ReadyDATA

5200 Hardware Manual describes the physical features of the ReadyDATA 5200. This chapter

includes the following sections:

•Front Panel

•Rear Panel

•Status and Shutdown

•Boot Menu

•Factory Settings

•Technical Specifications

This manual assumes that your ReadyDATA 5200 has been installed in a rack according to the

instructions in the NETGEAR ReadyDATA 5200 Installation Guide.

For detailed information about configuring, managing, and using your ReadyDATA 5200 storage

system, see the ReadyDATA OS Software Manual, which is available on the Resource CD that

came with your storage system and at http://support.netgear.com.

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Front Panel

The following figure shows the front panel of the ReadyDATA 5200 with the optional front

bezel removed.

Figure 1. ReadyDATA 5200 front panel

1. Drive bays with disk status LEDs

2. Control panel

The following figure shows the control panel in more detail.

Figure 2. ReadyDATA 5200 control panel

1. Power button

2. Reset button

3. Power LED

4. Ethernet LED

5. Power diagnostic LED

6. Disk activity LED

7. Ethernet LED

8. Information LED

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Each drive bay features a latch that releases the pop-out tray handle, as shown in the

following figure.

Figure 3. Disk tray handle and release latch

1. Disk tray handle

2. Disk tray release latch

WARNING:

No matter how many hard drives are installed in your system,

ensure that all drive trays remain in the drive bays to maintain

proper airflow.

For more information about adding and replacing disk drives, see Add a Disk on page 23 and

Replace a Disk on page 27.

The ReadyDATA 5200 comes with an front bezel that protects the drive bays with a lockable

cover. You can operate the ReadyDATA 5200 with or without the front bezel.

The following image shows a ReadyDATA 5200 with the front bezel installed.

Figure 4. ReadyDATA 5200 with front bezel installed

For more information about installing and removing the front bezel, see Front Bezel on

page 20.

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Rear Panel

The following figure shows the rear panel of the ReadyDATA 5200.

23 4 5678

Figure 5. ReadyDATA 5200 rear panel

1. Power supplies

2. PS2 keyboard and mouse ports

3. USB ports

4. RS232 console port

5. VGA monitor port

6. 1-gigabit Ethernet ports with status LED status indicators

7. 10-gigabit Ethernet ports with status LED status indicators

8. SAS output port

9. Maintenance port

Status and Shutdown

You can obtain information about the status of your unit by reviewing the indicators listed in

the following table.

Table 1. Status indicators

Indicator Description

Power LED The LED has these states:

•On.The unit is powered on.

•Off. The unit is powered off.

Disk activity LED The LED has these states:

•On.A disk is active.

•Off. No disk is active.

Power diagnostic LED The LED has these states:

•On.Power failure

•Off. Normal operation

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You can shut down your unit in these ways:

•Using the Power button:

•Preferred shutdown. Press the Power button two times to initiate a graceful

shutdown.

•Forced shutdown. If the unit is hung, press the Power button and hold for 5 seconds

to force a shutdown.

•Using Dashboard. For information about using Dashboard to shut down your unit, see

the ReadyDATA OS Software Manual.

Information LED The LED has these states:

•On.Overheating or fan failure

•Off. Normal operation

Disk LEDs on disk tray with

SAS drives or SSD with

SAS interface

The top LED indicates disk activity as follows:

•Blinking. The disk in the bay is active.

•On. The disk in the bay is inactive.

The bottom LED indicates disk failure, as follows:

•Off. Normal operation

•On. Disk failure

Disk LEDs on disk tray with

SATA drive or SSD with

SATA interface

The top LED indicates disk activity as follows:

•Blinking. The disk in the bay is active.

•Off. The disk in the bay is inactive.

The bottom LED indicates disk failure, as follows:

•Off. Normal operation

•On. Disk failure

Ethernet LEDs (front panel) The Ethernet port LEDs have these states:

•Green. An Ethernet cable is connected.

•Blinking. An Ethernet cable is active.

•Off. An Ethernet cable is disconnected.

1-gigabit Ethernet port

LEDs (rear panel)

The Ethernet port LEDs have these states:

•Amber. The LAN port is operating at 1 Gbps.

•Green. The LAN port is operating at 100 Mbps.

•Off. The LAN port is operating at 10 Mbps.

10-gigabit Ethernet ports

(rear panel)

The Ethernet port LEDs have these states:

•Green. The LAN port is operating at 10 Gbps.

•Amber. The LAN port is operating at 1 Gbps.

Table 1. Status indicators (continued)

Indicator Description

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Boot Menu

Use the boot menu to restart or troubleshoot your ReadyDATA 5200. It has the following boot

modes:

•Normal. Initiates a normal boot process, just like booting using the Power button.

•Factory default. Initiates a reboot process that resets the system to factory settings and

clears all data.

WARNING:

This boot mode erases all data. If your system has data that you

want to save, back it up to another storage device before

performing a factory default reboot.

•OS reinstall. Reinstalls the firmware from the internal flash to the disks. Use the OS

reinstall boot mode when the system crashes and corrupts some configuration files. OS

reinstall boot mode also resets some settings on your unit, such as Internet protocol

settings and the administrator password, to defaults.

•Tech support. Boots into a low-level diagnostic mode. Use the tech support boot mode

only when instructed to do so by a NETGEAR technical support representative.

•Memory test. Performs a memory test. The pass or fail result is reported using the unit’s

LEDs. Contact a NETGEAR technical support representative to interpret memory test

results.

To access the boot menu:

1. Power off your unit.

2. With a straightened paper clip, press and hold the Reset button.

3. Press the Power button to power on the unit.

4. Continue to press the Reset button until the power diagnostic LED and the information LED

are both lit.

The step takes approximately 1 minute.

5. Release the Reset button.

6. Press the Reset button within 2 seconds to enter the boot menu.

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7. Press and release the Reset button to scroll through the boot menu options.

Watch the blink pattern of the power diagnostic LED and the information LED. The

following table shows the how the system displays the current option using the power

diagnostic LED and information LED.

Boot Mode Power Diagnostic LED and Information LED Blink Pattern

Normal  

Factory default  

OS reinstall   

Tech support   

Memory test    

Legend:

•Left: Power diagnostic LED

•Right: information LED

•Off: 

•On: 

8. When the power diagnostic LED and information LED indicate the correct boot mode, press

and hold the Reset button for 3 seconds to select that boot mode.

The system confirms the selection by blinking the power diagnostic LED and the

information LED twice, and then begins to boot the system in the selected boot mode.

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