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G-4 Appendix G
AT7-MAX2
10. Add-On Card: Indicate which add-on cards you are
absolutely sure
are related to the problem.
If you can’t identify the problem’s origin, indicate all the add-on cards inserted into your system.
Remember to identify which card insert on which slot.
For example: Creative SB Value sound card insert on PCI slot 3.
11. Problem Description:
Please tell us problem you met. The more detailed, the better as our engineers
can help to find the solution more quickly. If the problem is random occurance, it may be hard to
simulate the problem and may take more time to find a solution.
Note
Items between the “
*
” are absolutely necessary.
RAID Troubleshooting
Q & A:
Q: May I use hard drives with different capacity or transfer mode?
A: In order to get optimized performance, we suggest using hard drives with the same model.
Q: How to assign a booting device?
A: You may press < Ctrl > < H > to assign a booting device in RAID BIOS (See Chapter 4 for detailed
information).
Q: Why can’t I see correct capacity in FDISK utility?
A: This is a well-known issue of Windows
®
95/98’s FDISK utility. If an IBM 75 GB hard disk DTLA
307075 only gets 7768 MB in Windows
®
95/98’s FDISK utility, please contact Microsoft
®
for a latest
version of FDISK utility. For windows
®
2000, there is no such a 64 GB issue.
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
Q: How to create spare disk?
In the menu zone, select item “ 3. Create/Delete Spare ” and press < Enter > to confirm.
If you are not creating the RAID system yet, screen will show you the warning message, tell you the
current system do not create the RAID system. If you choose create the RAID system, then you can
select the spare disk you want to creat.
In the validated channel status zone, select the spare disk to be added and press < Enter > to confirm.
Q: How to delete spare disk:
In the menu zone, select item “
3. Create/Delete Spare
” and press <
Enter
> to confirm.
In the validated channel status zone, select the spare disk to be removed and press < Enter > to
confirm.
Q: Why I see “NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED” when booting?
A: There isn’t any activated primary partition in you system. Please use FDISK or any other utilities to
create/set one.