Supero SUPER 370DDE, User Manual

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Chapter 5: The FastTrak 100 RIAD Card (370DDE)
System CMOS displays C: or D: drive failure during Startup
Do not reference C: or D: in the Mainboard Standard CMOS for drives
attached to the FastTrak100 controller. Only enter drive information in
the Mainboard CMOS for drives attached to a conventional add-on or
onboard IDE controller.
FDISK reports a much lower drive capacity if a single physical drive
or a striped array exceeds 64GB
Due to a limitation with FDISK, the utility reports only the storage
capacity that exceeds 64GB. This is a cosmetic, not actual, limitation.
Simply create a single DOS drive partition, reboot, then format the
partition. The Format command will recognize the total capacity of the
partition accurately. Windows NT/2000/98 will now recognize the total
capacity of your array.
Unable to partition or format array
The Reserve Sector of one of the drives has become corrupt or bad.
Removing the Reserve Sector will remedy any issue related directly to
a Bad Reserve Sector.
To remove the Reserve Sector, follow these steps:
1.
When the FastTrak100 BIOS comes up, press Crtl-F to enter the
FastBuild.
2. Press 2 to “View Drive Assignments”.
3. Using the arrow keys, highlight the drive where you wish to remove the
reserve sector.
4. Press ALT-F1. The highlighted drive will start blinking on the screen.
5. Press CTRL-TAB. A message will appear that says the reserved
sector (which is where array information is kept) on the disk will be
wiped.
WARNING: Before removing the Reserve Sector of the drive(s),
backup any existing data. Removal of the reserve sector of any
drive permanently deletes all existing data on the hard drive. For
Mirrored arrays (RAID 1), you should remove the Reserve Sector
from the “mirrored” drive first (this will appear during Step 3 below)
then rebuild the mirrored array. Remove the Sector on the Master
Drive only as a last resort. For Striped arrays (RAID 0), removing
the Reserve Sector from any of the drives that are striped will
destroy the arrayed data.