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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