Mylex AcceleRAID 352, Installation Manual

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Installation Abort
C-2 AcceleRAID 352 Installation Guide
If the firmware detects that during the last power cycle the system was turned
off abruptly leaving some incomplete write operations, the following
message appears:
Recovery from mirror race in progress
WARNING: Dead SCSI devices (Channel Target) : x:y
The following messages may also appear:
AcceleRAID 352 cannot recover from Mirror Race!
Some system drives are inconsistent!
During the initialization, if the firmware fails to respond to the BIOS inquiry
within two minutes, the following message displays:
AcceleRAID 352
not responding--no drives installed!
The BIOS then inquires the firmware for its version number and other
information, and prints out the following message:
AcceleRAID 352
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 brand 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