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Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A Installation and User’s Guide
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I use hard disk drives with different capacity or transfer modes?
A: In order to get optimized performance, Adaptec suggests using
hard disk drives with the same model.
Q: Can I use multiple Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A controllers in my system?
A: No, only one Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A controller is supported
in each system.
Q: How do I assign a booting device?
A: Press Ctrl+H to assign a booting device in the Adaptec RAID
Array Configuration BIOS Utility.
Q: Why can’t I see correct capacity in FDISK utility?
A: It's a well-known issue of Windows 98's
FDISK
utility. If an IBM
75 GB hard disk DTLA 307075 only gets 7768 MB in Windows 98’s
FDISK
utility, please contact Microsoft for the latest version of
FDISK
utility or download IBM's Disk Manager DiskGo! 2.5 to fix
it. For Windows 2000, there is no 64 GB issue.
Q: How do I rebuild a mirror array when one of the drives corrupts? (How do I rebuild
a RAID 1 array when one of the drives fails?)
A: Restart the system and use the Broken RAID 1 BIOS Menu (BIOS
RAID 1 Rebuild Menu) to rebuild the drive by following these
steps:
1
Restart the system.
2
The BIOS will detect the change in drive configuration and will
bring up the Broken RAID 1 BIOS Menu (BIOS RAID 1 Rebuild
Menu) with the following options:
1. Power
OFF
and replace the failed drive.
2. Destroy the mirror 1 relationship. (Eliminate the RAID 1
relationship.)
3. Select replacement drive and rebuild. (Select a replacement
drive and rebuild the array.)
4. Continue to boot.
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