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Failed to toggle drive light; Not Supported

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I recently purchased three 3TB Western Digital My Book 1140 Essential USB 3.0/2.0 hard drives and configured them in a Windows Server 2012 storage pool.  When I right click the physical disk in the storage pool manager and choose Toggle Drive Light I get an error "Failed to toggle the drive light; Not Supported".

To my understanding from the FAQ on storage spaces per here, the Toggle Drive Light feature relies on drives that support the SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) protocol. 

I specifically purchased the three Western Digital drives because they offer a SES driver, which can be found here

Even after installing the SES drivers I am unable to toggle the drive light.  As a result I now have to physically label which drives correspond to the drives in the storage pool. 

Is this an issue that I would need to take up with Western Digital?  What are your recommended drives or drive enclosures that are compatible with the Toggle Drive Light function with Windows Storage Pools?


MCITP Windows 7 MCTS Windows Server 2008


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