Chapter 5: Software Installation
5-7
1) When the onboard SCSI controller does not detect hard drives, make
sure that the onboard SCSI is enabled through jumper JA1, and that the
SCSI NVRAM is updated.
To update the SCSI NVRAM, please do the following:
a. Download the following three files: nvdata.dat, nvdata.efi, and
nvdata.sav into a USB pen.
b. Go to the EFI Shell and locate the USB pen.
c. At the prompt, type:
fs1:\> nvdata nvdata.dat
2) If the hard drives are detected by the SCSI controller, but the system
is slow in following the user's command inside the LSI Logic utility
environment, please send the motherboard back to Supermicro's RMA
Department to have the onboard NVRAM cleaned up because the problem
is caused by un-cleaned soldering.
3) It is absolutely normal for the SCSI controller to take a while to detect
the Hard drives since the firmware of the hard drives is built inside the
EFI environment.
5-4 Accessing the LSI Logic Utility and building
RAID 1
5.4.1 Some common concerns
4) It may take a while to build the RAID array, but the user does not have
to wait for it to complete before he/she can start loading the OS. To load
the OS, you need to exit the SCSI utility or reset the system, and then,
proceed with the OS installation while the RAID1 Array is being Built in
the background.
5) Please note that only RAID-1 is supported by the current version of
SCSI controller. No other RAID array is supported.
6) To building RAID 1 Array, please make sure that the drives are
configured in the same channel. The User will not be able to build RAID
if the drives are connected to two different channels.
