Mylex AcceleRAID 170, Installation Manual

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Installation Abort
B-2 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: X system drives offline
Warning: X system drives critical
WARNING: Dead SCSI devices (Channel : Target) : x:y
No system drives installed
X 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