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The system is a Supermicro X9DR3-F.

One of the hard drives has failed and my RAID array is rebuilding. This takes a long time, and the system beeps every 2 seconds (for about 1 second) to let me know a drive has failed.

This is driving me to insanity since I need to work in the server room the whole day.

Does someone know how to turn it off? I couldn't find any option for that in the BIOS and I no longer have the manual.

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I've found the solution. In the RAID controller, go to properties and keep click next until you see "alarm control". Set to silence or disabled and click submit.

Full info comes from the official Lenovo site:

To disable or silence alarm:

  • If the alarm is disabled, it will never turn on again (i.e.: due to a different issue).
  • If the alarm is silenced, it will turn back on when there is another issue. In this case, it will also turn back on after a reboot.

To disable/silence alarm from the Web BIOS Configuration Utility (CU):

  • Enter the Web BIOS CU by clicking Ctrl+H at boot.
  • Select the controller affected by the issue.
  • Select “Controller Properties”.
  • Click “Next” until locating the “Alarm Control” entry.
  • Select “Disable”, “Enable”, or “Silence” from the drop-down menu and click “Submit”.

To disable/silence alarm from MegaRAID Storage Management:

  • Select the controller affected by the issue.
  • Select the “Physical” tab.
  • Right click the controller entry on the left pane of the screen.
  • Select “Disable Alarm” or “Silence Alarm”.
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In addition to managing via the RAID controller interface, you can use either MegaCLI or StorCli commands.

Disabling the alarm is perhaps not advised as you will not get any alarms until it is re-enabled.

Silencing the alarm will do so until the next reboot or the next event that would trigger the alarm.

MegaCli64 -AdpSetProp <AlarmEnbl | AlarmDsbl | AlarmSilence> -aN

The N is the adapter number. For example, this silences the alarm on adapter 0.

Megaraid CLI> MegaCli -AdpSetProp AlarmSilence -a0

Adapter 0: Set alarm to Silenced success.


Exit Code: 0x00

In StorCli, the equivalent is:

storcli /cx set alarm=<on | off | silence>
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