J-4 Appendix J
Please give us the detailed information of your DDR SDRAM module; it will help us to simulate the
problems you met.
10. ADD-ON CARD: Indicate which add-on cards you are absolutely sure are related to the problem.
If you cannot identify the problem’s origin, indicate all the add-on cards inserted into your system.
NOTE: Items between the “*” are absolutely necessary.
RAID Troubleshooting
Q & A:
Q: May I use hard drives with different capacity or transfer mode?
A: In order to get optimized performance, we suggest using hard drives with the same model.
Q: How to assign a booting device?
A: You may press <Ctrl> <H> to assign a booting device in RAID BIOS (See Appendix G for detailed
information).
Q: Why can’t I see correct capacity in FDISK utility?
A: It's a well-known issue of Windows
®
95/98's FDISK utility. If an IBM 75GB hard disk DTLA
307075 only gets 7768MB in Windows
®
95/98’s FDISK utility, please contact Microsoft
®
for a latest
version of FDISK utility or download IBM's Disk Manager DiskGo! 2.5 to fix it. For windows
®
2000,
there is no such a 64GB issue.
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
Q: How to create a striping and mirror array (RAID 0+1)?
A: You need four HDD drives, every two of them on the same channel/cable build a striping array. Then
create a mirror array by these two striping arrays (See Appendix G for detailed information).
1. Press <Ctrl> <H> to setup configuration
2. Choose item 1 to Create RAID.
3. Choose item 1 to set Array Mode as Striping and Mirror (RAID 0+1).
4. Choose item 2 to Select Disk Drives. There are two striping arrays built automatically and you
only have to enter twice.
5. Choose item 4 to Start Creation Process.
6. Press <Esc> to finish setting and leave RAID BIOS.
SI7 Series