Mylex DAC960PG, Installation Manual

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Start-up Sequences
Manual No. 771971 4-7
Drive Check Error Messages
If the firmware finds a valid DAC960PG configuration, but it doesn't match
the SCSI drives currently installed, one or more of the following messages
will be displayed:
Unidentified device found at channel x....
Device identified for chn x, tgt y found at chn x', tgt y'
SCSI device at chn x, tgt y not responding
If any of the above messages are displayed, the firmware will not proceed
any further in the initialization process, except to find other mismatches.
Then, the BIOS will print out the following:
DAC960PG Configuration Checksum error--run configuration
utility
Mismatch between NVRAM and Flash EEPROM configuration
At the next stage the following message may appear:
Recovery from mirror race in progress
This will be displayed if the firmware detects that during the last power
cycle, the system was turned off abruptly, leaving some incomplete write
operations.
The following messages may also appear:
Adapter 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 will be displayed:
DAC960PG not responding--no drives installed.
The BIOS then inquires the firmware for its version number and other
information, and prints out the following message:
DAC960PG 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 are offline
Warning: X system drives are critical
Warning: The following SCSI devices are dead--chn