System Cmos Issues; Drive-Related Errors - Gigabyte Promise RAID Function User Manual

RAID Function
Intermittent data problems
Do not exceed the 33Mhz PCI Bus speed. Pentiums set to higher than default settings
or AMD K6 and Cyrix CPUs can exceed these limitations and cause intermittent boot
and data problems.

7-2 System CMOS Issues

Set Mainboard CMOS Boot sequence to boot to RAID Function
On some Mainboard BIOS, it is necessary to set the Boot sequence to "SCSI, A:, C:"
since the Promise card is identified as a SCSI card..
Mainboard CMOS displays C: or D: drive failure during startup
See Drive-Related Errors section.
Using an Onboard IDE Card with RAID Function
If an onboard IDE controller is installed with hard disks, enable support in the
Mainboard Standard CMOS Setup for the drives. Note that the onboard IDE hard
drives will then be the bootable hard disk unless the system BIOS has a boot sequence
setting with a "SCSI, A:, C:" option.

7-3 Drive-Related Errors

Critical Array Status Error Reported during Boot
If a critical status error message appears on theRAID Function's BIOS startup screen
for a mirrored array (see below), there is a drive in the array which has failed or is not
responding. RAID Function will identify the failed drive by channel number and
Master/Slave designation (if 2 drives exist on the same cable). The mirrored array has
lost its fault tolerance, but will still perform normal drive reads and writes.
Operation aborted because FastBuild encountered an error as
follows:
Location: Channel 2 - Master Drive
Array Status: Critical
Please retry using FastCheck utility to recover all data. Reboot the
system by pressing the ENTER key.
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