I have an MD1000 SAS chassis which we were hoping to use to expand our ZFS pool.
The chassis is second-hand, and doesn't contain any drives. When powered on it will run normally for about 30 seconds and then enter a fault state with the system status LED at the front blinking amber, on for 1 second, off for 1 second.
The same behavior occurs both when the chassis is running disconnected from a host, or when it's connected to a 1950-III via a Dell 6GBPS SAS HBA. When disks are inserted the controller and operating system fully recognize them and don't appear to generate any obvious warnings.
My question is how to diagnose the amber status condition. Will I need to purchase a PERC 5/E and/or debug cable just to get any indication of the cause of the issue?