SuperTrak66™ User's Manual | Appendix C |
Q:How can I be sure that
A:A cache flush is always triggered immediately following any write from the int 13h BIOS. This level of array support is what FDISK and FORMAT use to access the drive from MSDOS. With no delay in the write operation, there is no cached data waiting to be written. If you are running from NT or other O/S, as usual, make sure to shut down NT properly so that the O/S can trigger and flush the cache as necessary. NOTE: powering off before a proper shutdown is complete may result in the loss of unwritten data in cache, possibly causing problems in a subsequent boot or access to the data which was unwritten.
Q: Why can’t I see the drives on the SuperTrak66 under FDISK?
A:If you have not created an array, the physical drive(s) attached to the SuperTrak66 card will not be recognized by the operating system. The SuperTrak66 controller is dedicated to RAID array management and does not provide any means of addressing individual hard drives through the int 13h interface used by FDISK. In order to access drives on the SuperTrak66 from MSDOS at all, you must first create a RAID array.
Q:Why can’t I see the array I just created with SuperCheck under the NT Disk Administrator?
A:Since Windows NT does not yet support any method of dynamically adding and/or removing logical devices to/from the system, you must restart NT. The next boot will show the new array under Disk Administrator.
