RAID Bios loading randomly?

When I boot my machine, for no apparent reason, the nVidia RAID bios version 4.60 will load up and say "Detecting RAID array..." or whatever, and hang there, even though I explicitly have RAID disabled in the bios! I am running bios 1.41 at this point, but I have tried 1.36 and 1.37 with no better results.... I have also cleared CMOS via the jumper....
Any thoughs on the problem?

Upgrade to bios version 1.5. This will update the raid controller. Ive just had the same problem with the raid hanging but i had raid. found out that one of my sata drives had gone so i bought a weston digital raptor instead to replce the drives.

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Solaris possibly preventing RAID BIOS launch

Hello
I have installed a STLab A-230 2-Channel Serial ATA & ATA-133 RAID Combo and tried to boot into its RAID BIOS with no luck. The initial loading menu quickly switches to the multi-boot menu where you select to boot into Solaris or another OS. I am supposed to press Ctrl-Z, but it just switches to the boot menu without bringing up RAID BIOS. Please let me know if this would be to do with the installed Solaris and its uninstallation would solve it.
Regards,
Dai

You can use SMC for other purposes but it won't help your with RAID.
Sol 10 1/06 has raidctl which handles LSI1030 and LSI1064 RAID�enabled controllers (from raidctl(1M)).
Some of the PERCs (most?) are LSI but I don't know if they are chipsets used by your PoweEdge (I doubt it).
Generally you can break it down like this for x86:
If you are using hardware RAID with Solaris 10 x86 you have to use pre-Solaris (i.e. on the RAID controller) managment or hope that the manufacturer of the device has a Solaris managment agent/interface (good luck).
The only exception to this that I know of is the RAID that comes with V20z, V40z, X4100, X4200.
Otherwise you will want to go with SVM or VxVM and manage RAID within Solaris (software RAID).
SMC etc are only going to show you stuff if SVM is involved and VxVM has its own interface, otherwise the disks are controlled by PERC and just hanging out as far as Solaris is concerned.
Hope this helps.

Accessing Intel Raid Bios Utility

I've added a Maxtor 160gig Sata hdd to my motherboard and have been trying to set it up, but when i try and press CTRL + I nothing happens, it just continues to load up the bios and o/s.

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Originally posted by Wolfspyder
I've added a Maxtor 160gig Sata hdd to my motherboard and have been trying to set it up, but when i try and press CTRL + I nothing happens, it just continues to load up the bios and o/s.
Set it up how? A single drive or are you preparing it for a Raid?
Which connector is it attached to?
What other drives do you have and where are they attached?
If you aren't interested in running a Raid then there's no need to access the Raid Bios utility. It will only be enabled if you have set the "Configure SATA As Raid" for the Intel controller in the Bios.
In WinXP Device Manager, it's normal for the OS to identify the extra SATA ports on the 865/875 chipsets as another primary and secondary IDE controller.
Reading THE FAQ POST (specifically #5 HDD's) would also be of interest to you.

RAID BIOS controlling Sytem HDD, not AHCI

Hey All,
I have an XW8400 Bios 2.38, adn I enabled the RIAD+AHCI sata emulation (and I did the regedit trick too) . AHCI bios loads but it says the my System drive ( SATA DRIVE) is being controlled by the RAID BIOS and not AHCI
I do have a RAID 0 with LSI not the ESB RAID. Is there a way to disbale the ESB RAID bios so the drives will use AHCI only?
Salud

You really had it working before? Weird - it's not supposed to work! The Promise controller supports either 0 or 1. I can't see how you got 0+1.
And how can the second (bigger) HDD be the "other array" if you've got mirroring in there somewhere? OK, you can maybe fool a single drive into thinking it's a striped array but no way a mirror is anything other than a second drive which is part of the SAME array as the first drive.
It looks like you have successfully created a mirrored array using the 2 drives (RAID 1). There's no way you have a striped array accross the 2 drives since they have to be the same size for that to work. Mirroring is OK with drives of different sizes. The trouble is, the extra space on the larger drive is just wasted - the total array space is limited to the size of the smaller drive.
Since the second drive is just a mirror and the extra space is always unusable, it's no surprise you can't see it in XP. You would never want to read or write specifically to the mirror.

Help me PLEASE kt4 raid bios

Ive already read through loads of posts but im not sure where im going wrong. i have a kt400 ultra and i use my pc as a HTPC, so as i fill a HDD with films i go out and buy another. now ive filled all my IDE1 and 2 ports and i just baught another 120gig maxtor drive and just wanna use it, for the time being on its own if possible in IDE3. Dont really care about performance just want it to work. Now ive plugged my hdd in and booted the machine , Gone in to the RAID BIOS and auto setup defined an array, witch went fine, re-booted and the drivers for the raid wouldent install properly it said CODE10 i beleave. So i restarted the machine to see if that sorts it and now the RAID BIOS has dissapeared. ive tried changing the IDE Cable and tried all the HDD jumper settings. i can get the bios to come up if i disconnect the hdd, boot, shutdown re-connect the hdd and boot again then its there and it sees the array but the drivers still wront start in winXP. Are u just not allowed to run one HDD on the raid in with case ill go out and buy anoter SATA drive, Or is this some weird fault.
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Surelly you will agree with me that the most common post about arrays, is the one that says that the array controller seems don´t like spare disks no matter what says the instructions. 8)

Now RAID BIOS Hangs-Can't get into it!!

Folks - On a new build, the BIOS (v1.6) on my Neo4-F worked fine. I was trying to get Windows to not lose missing nt___ files. I kept deleting arrays and trying new array configs, reloading windows (yes, loading the RAID drivers with F6), but Windows still wouldn't load due to missing dll's. Now when I set the RAID SATA settings in the BIOS, save & exit, on the reload it hangs at the Nvidia RAID ROM BIOS screen "Detecting array..." and won't go any further. So I have to power down, reset the CMOS to get the BIOS back. If I go in and reset the SATA RAID drives, it'll do the same thing, otherwise if I don't set the RAID, it'll go on to load Windows as normal. What happened and how can I get into the RAID BIOS again??? Thanks

Try having just one connected and boot . (do a cmos clear also ) .
You can also leave the drive powered , and just insert/remove the sata cable when system is running .
Just don't plug/unplug the HDs power connector while system is powered on.
Sometimes the raid hangs if the drive order has been reversed (the raid mirror is confused whats drive #1) .So you should also try switching the drives on the connected sata ports .

SATA RAID conflics with POMISE T3 RAID Bios

I've read quite a few of the RAID setup issues concerning the "Extra" RAID settings under "integrated peripherals" for the K9A2 Platinum. My problem seems to be a bit unique. I can't get both the SATA RAID and the Promise "Fast Track" to work together. If I enable the Extra RAID Controllers the Fastrack Bios does not recognize my SATA RAID.
This simply means that for some reason the motherboard SATA RAID conflicts or disables the PROMISE RAID Bios and vice versa. So I have not been able to activate my eSATA ports or use anything connected to the SATA5-6 ports without going into the CMOS and setting SATA DEVICES to IDE and then turning on the EXTRA Raid Controller under "Integrated Peripherals" in the CMOS. Unless I'm wrong. I am almost sure that this scenario is right.
The second issue is that I cannot get my ram to go in DUAL CHANNEL mode. But I will post that issue another time.
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The DOS window came up fine but it appeared that every susequent module that was brought up for detecting the motherboard caught some kind of conlfict and terminated causing Vista to summon the program terminated message box. Eventually the dos prompt would state that it could not detect the motherboard and close. All in red text. This happened only when I flashed the BIOS with v1.2. I wanted to go back to 1.3 just to verify that the BIOS version was the cause and the only reason I got back to 1.3 or 1.4 easily was becaus it was backed up by the tool so all I had to do was rename the backup.bin file(s). Again everything went as expected with the USB Flasher Tool until I loaded the v1.2 BIOS. It could not even detect the mainboard.
The only reason I didn't need the tool anymore was that it backed up the versions of the bios for each time that I had flashed the bios previously.
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Problems with IDE2 & 3 not detecting IDE device - going to RAID bios

hi
Ok well after many painstaking hours I finally managed to get the mobo(915G combo) up and running but encounter this problem.
IDE1 (third master) has hard drive on, this loads up ok
But if I connect my dvd rom and dvd writer as master & slave into either ide 2 or 3, I get the RAID bios utility load up and then only sometimes it lets me press the tab key, and all i can do is go in this circle.
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first off i would just like to say thanks for you help, everything is JUST ABOUT working!!
It does seem strange the instruction booklet informs you to put the primary boot device into IDE1 (blue socket) yet this doesnt qwork and you have to put the optical devices into this socket. Everything is now being recognised(within the bios) but I have now updated to XP with SP1 and the only problem i now face is that when the pc loads up it detects both ide HDD within the raid controllers BUT once into windows I can only see the c:/ not the secondary HDD. I dfid try to add this as a slave to the primary master HDD but got error on startup. I have since installed onto the 3rd IDE/RAID as a master and it is detected fine.
Within device manager in XP it shows as a device but i am unable to format the drive or save/map anything to it
Any further ideas?
Cheers
Paul

6730 (655 Max-FISR) RAID BIOS menu - how to enter?

Hey all,
according to http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=424, this model (6730) should have RAID 0 or 1 support.
But I can't quite figure out anything in the BIOS menu of it that has to do with this. So I installed two Serial ATA hdds onto my motherboard, and they are being detected just fine, no problem at all. So according to the Serial ATA menu, I start installing win2000 and do the F6 and S stuff, loading the drivers for the SATA drives. Then when I get to where it asks me where to install windows too, I get TWO harddrives listed for me to choose from, not one (I'm trying to do RAID 0 btw).
Well coming to think about it, that's logical: I did not set ANYTHING in the BIOS about the drives being in RAID -- I read some guides online on how to install RAID drives -- supposedly you press Ctrl-F to enter the BIOS for RAID controller and set RAID0, RAID1 and those stuff there. Where is this RAID BIOS menu for the MS-6730 motherboard?
most threads I read here, when people talk about doing RAID, most people get through the step "configure the hdds as RAID 0/1" really quickly by a mention with a sentence -- I think that's the part I'm stuck on. Maybe my question should be... how do I enter the RAID BIOS for this motherboard at all? The manuals that came with the mobo don't really have anything on RAID *at all*...
[edit]
btw... I'm new to RAID arrays, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. I put my two (identical) hdds one connected to ser1 and one connected to ser2, on the motherboard. is that how you are supposed to do it? they are WD Caviar SATA drives (120gb) btw. jumpers shouldn't be a problem, the WD web site says for a SATA drive, the jumpers are only for power settings, no master/slave things.
Thanks for any help.

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Installed a RAID card in my Dell Inspiron 3847. However, the RAID BIOS does not show up and I cannot install Windows 7 to it.

That is basically a summary of the problem The Dell Inspiron 3847 does not come with RAID, so I tried installing a PCI-express 1x RAID card. However, the RAID BIOS never shows up. The HDDs show up when I install the RAID controller driver in Windows 7 setup, but I cannot install Windows 7. I am using an IOCrest SY-PEX40008 RAID card with a Silicon Image Sil3124 chipset.
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D20 Marvell raid bios update.

Ok i have a pair of Lenovo D20's here one is a 4158-W5K & the other is a 4158-B6U I just noticed that one unit has a different Marvell bios than the other one. Is there any way to update them to the newest raid bios? Any help would be appriciated.
Mike

Can you confirm the FW level for each individual system?
I don't think we normally push FW updates for the Marvell controllers in 20 series out to the field as there is some risk in customers messing things up and rendering their systems unusable. It's a small risk, but it still exists.
Do you have a reason to have the systems on the same FW levels (i.e. are you encountering a problem on one that you're not seeing on the other)? Most of the FW updates for the Marvell controllers were pretty benign in nature as I recall. Small bug fixes here and there really.

When bios loading laptop stop responding

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I changed the boot device order in bios, and after i've saved it, computer bios loading fail. I can't do anything. Pressing F2 or F12 does nothing. computer say: "opening bios.." and that's all.
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disconnect your ac and remove the battery -- after that hold down the power button for 10secs
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let see if that will work...
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Raid BIOS Gone (KT4 Ultra-BSR)

I recently bought a Serial ATA Hard Drive wanting to install it on the raid controller. But when I went to enter the Raid Controller's BIOS FastBuild Setup (at boot-time), it never shows up.
I have the KT4 Ultra-BSR, and I can see the RAID Controller enable/disable option in the Integrated Peripherals. I have it enabled, but it NEVER displays the RAID bios at boot-up. This is the second KT4 Ultra I've had and I know I saw the RAID bios on the first one I had. I have the latest system BIOS installed (1.30).
Has anyone experienced this and/or know how to fix it? Is there a way for flash the RAID controller to possibly fix it? Did the entry to the setup change from whats in the manual (ctrl-F4)?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

I've seen a couple other post like yours Shark. While that makes me feel a little more comfortable that other are having similar problems, I thinks mine's a little different. I don't ever remember seeing the RAID BIOS on this motherboard. I've tried turning it off and on in a row to see if mine would eventuall show, but I never see it.
Does anyone from MSI read these? I think something should be done.

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I have a K7T266Pro2-RU (MSI 6380) mobo with an 80 GB Maxtor HDD on IDE3 and a 250 GB WD on IDE4, using the latest FastTrak100 RAID drivers from the promise website. On IDE 1 and 2 I have 3 optical drives installed.
The problem is that while the RAID bios detects the HDD's just fine (as two separate Stripe 1+0 arrays) and boots fine off IDE3, XP does not see the other array and therefore the larger HDD is invisible. Of course I have SP1 installed with the LBA support, and when I try the HDD on one of the primary IDE channels it is recognised just fine by XP.
So one might think that the problem lies with the RAID driver.....except to throw another spanner in the works, I did have this working fine on the RAID controller, until I decided to re-install XP from scratch on the smaller HDD (larger HDD is full of data). But for some reason this fresh install will not recognise the second HDD on the RAID controller... whats killing me is that it did work beforehand, and now it wont. I cant think what I have missed to make this work....
Any ideas appreciated please

You really had it working before? Weird - it's not supposed to work! The Promise controller supports either 0 or 1. I can't see how you got 0+1.
And how can the second (bigger) HDD be the "other array" if you've got mirroring in there somewhere? OK, you can maybe fool a single drive into thinking it's a striped array but no way a mirror is anything other than a second drive which is part of the SAME array as the first drive.
It looks like you have successfully created a mirrored array using the 2 drives (RAID 1). There's no way you have a striped array accross the 2 drives since they have to be the same size for that to work. Mirroring is OK with drives of different sizes. The trouble is, the extra space on the larger drive is just wasted - the total array space is limited to the size of the smaller drive.
Since the second drive is just a mirror and the extra space is always unusable, it's no surprise you can't see it in XP. You would never want to read or write specifically to the mirror.

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> Hi: I would like to know if anyone can help me with this
issue:
>
> I'm developing a web site with an iframe in the center
of its main content
> with featured products.
>
> I want the index.html, where the iframe it's included,
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>
> I don't know if I'm clear enough... perhaps my English
is not very good. I
> would appreciate any help. Thanks a lot.
>
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