Promise Technology FASTtrak100 TX User Manual page 93

To remove the Reserve Sector, follow these steps:
1. When the FastTrak100 BIOS comes up, press Crtl-F to enter the FastBuild.
2. Press 2 to "View Drive Assignments".
3. Using the arrow keys, highlight the drive where you wish to remove the reserve
sector.
4. Press ALT-F1. The highlighted drive will start blinking on the screen.
5. Press CTRL-TAB. A message will appear that says the reserved sector (which
is where array information is kept) on the disk will be wiped.
6. Press "Y" to confirm.
7. For mirrored arrays, hit the "ESC" key twice to reboot and skip to step 10.
8. For striped arrays, repeat this process for each member of the particular array
that is having a problem.
9. When finished, hit the "ESC" key twice to reboot.
10. After rebooting, use FastBuild to re-create the array. For mirrored arrays, rebuild
the mirrored array. For striped arrays, use FDISK and FORMAT after setting up
the array.
Array Constantly Goes Into Critical or Offline Mode During Reboot
(see "Unable to Partition or Format array" above)
Cannot Rebuild Mirrored (RAID 1) Array
(see "Unable to Partition or Format array" above)
Fatal Errors or Data Corruption Are Constantly Reported When Reading or
Writing to Drive Array
(see "Unable to Partition or Format array" above)
ECC Error Reported on Rebuild
The following screen will appear if a data error is detected on either source or target
drive during Rebuild if you have set the On Errors setting to "Interactive" within
FastCheck's Options Window (see page 63).
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