Acer AcceleRAID 170 User Manual

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Installation Abort
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AcceleRAID 170 Installation Guide
During the initialization, if the firmware fails to respond to the BIOS inquiry 
within two minutes, the following message displays:
AcceleRAID 170
not responding--no drives installed!
The BIOS then inquires the firmware for its version number and other 
information, and displays the following message:
AcceleRAID 170
Firmware Version x.xx
One or more of the following messages will be displayed if the firmware 
reports the following conditions:
Warning: system drives offline
Warning: system drives critical
WARNING: Dead SCSI devices (Channel : Target) : x:y
No system drives installed
system drives installed
The BIOS repeats the same process for additional RAID controllers present 
in the system. Then it proceeds to boot, if possible, from the first system 
drive on the first controller.
Installation Abort
With Firmware 6.x, the installation aborted message is displayed when the 
BIOS finds that the configuration of the disk drives, as stored in the 
NVRAM and configuration on disk, is different from what it senses at boot 
time. When this happens, and a new installation is not being attempted, the 
cause is often a faulty cable or drive, or a loose connection. Check all of the 
connectors, cables, drives, and try to boot. If the error persists, it most likely 
indicates a genuine failure and needs to be corrected. To correct it, boot and 
run the on-board BIOS Configuration Utility, RAID EzAssist (see Chapter 
3). For more information, refer to the RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility 
User Reference Guide
 or RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility Quick 
Configuration Guide
.
With Firmware 6.x, if the BIOS displays a mismatch in the Configuration on 
Disk (COD) on all drives, then the following message will be displayed, 
“install abort”-- no drives will be installed message. If you get this message, 
boot and run RAID EzAssist, the on-board Mylex Disk Array Configuration 
Utility. See Chapter 3 to recover from the error. For more information, refer