Promise Technology FastTrak TX4310 User Manual page 120

FastTrak TX4310 User Manual
What system BIOS setup settings do I use for the drives on the FastTrak
TX4310?
None. The drives on the FastTrak TX4310 are supported by the FastTrak
BIOS and/or OS drivers, not by your system BIOS.
How do I partition/format my FastTrak TX4310 disk array?
The FastTrak TX4310 represents the disk array as a single disk drive to your
system. Therefore, anything that you can do to a single disk drive you can do
to a FastTrak disk array. You can partition the disk array as you see fit using
any file system you want.
Critical disk array (array) status error reported during boot
If a critical status error message appears on the FastTrak BIOS startup
screen for a RAID1, RAID 5 or RAID 10 disk array, there is a drive in the disk
array that has failed or is not responding. The mirrored disk array has lost its
fault tolerance, but will still perform normal drive reads and writes. See
"Logical Drive Critical / Offline" on page 85.
Disk drives cannot be formed into a disk array
Disk drives must support Serial ATA and be free of media defects in order to
be added to a disk array. Promise recommends using new identical disk
drives for each disk array. Also, re-check the data and power cabling and
connections.
System CMOS displays C: or D: drive failure during Startup
Do not reference C: or D: in the Motherboard Standard CMOS for drives
attached to the FastTrak Serial ATA RAID Controller. Only enter drive
information in the Motherboard CMOS for drives attached to the onboard
IDE controller.
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