Dell S300, S100 manual Virtual Disk-Related Errors

Table 7-7. Other Errors Appearing on the BIOS

Issue Likely Causes to Check Corrective Actions

S100 rom option not visible during S300 controller use in the system.

S100 and S300 co- existence in the same system is not supported. S100 option rom becomes disabled when S100 and S300 are available.

Remove S300 adapter and reboot system to select F1 and select RAID for boot BIOS.

The S100 rom option appears during POST boot.

NOTE: If both controllers are used in the system, the windows driver manager displays the additional driver.

Virtual Disk-Related Errors

Use the information on the following tables as guidelines for troubleshooting the controller.

Table 7-8. Cannot Create a Virtual Disk

Likely Causes to Check	Corrective Actions
The physical disk is not	This error might be because:
displayed	– The controller cannot communicate with the
	physical disks.
	– A cable might be loose or defective.
	Re-seat the physical disks in the backplane and
	check their cables.
Insufficient free space available	There must be sufficient available free space on the
on the selected physical disks	physical disk(s) used by the virtual disk.
Incorrect number of physical	See "Understanding RAID Levels" in the RAID
disks selected for the desired	Technology Guide, located on the Dell Support
RAID level	website at support.dell.com/manuals, for a
	description of RAID levels and the allowable
	number of physical disks used with each RAID
	level.

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