Installation Abort

During the initialization, if the firmware fails to respond to the BIOS inquiry within two minutes, the following message displays:

AcceleRAID 170 not responding--no drives installed!

The BIOS then inquires the firmware for its version number and other information, and displays the following message:

AcceleRAID 170 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 offline

Warning: X system drives critical

WARNING: Dead SCSI devices (Channel : Target) : x:y No system drives installed

X system drives installed

The BIOS repeats the same process for additional RAID controllers present in the system. Then it proceeds to boot, if possible, from the first system drive on the first controller.

Installation Abort

With Firmware 6.x, the installation aborted message is displayed when the BIOS finds that the configuration of the disk drives, as stored in the NVRAM and configuration on disk, is different from what it senses at boot time. When this happens, and a new installation is not being attempted, the cause is often a faulty cable or drive, or a loose connection. Check all of the connectors, cables, drives, and try to boot. If the error persists, it most likely indicates a genuine failure and needs to be corrected. To correct it, boot and run the on-board BIOS Configuration Utility, RAID EzAssist (see Chapter 3). For more information, refer to the RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility User Reference Guide or RAID EzAssist Configuration Utility Quick Configuration Guide.

With Firmware 6.x, if the BIOS displays a mismatch in the Configuration on Disk (COD) on all drives, then the following message will be displayed, “install abort”-- no drives will be installed message. If you get this message, boot and run RAID EzAssist, the on-board Mylex Disk Array Configuration Utility. See Chapter 3 to recover from the error. For more information, refer

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