Dell 39320A User Guide - Page 37

RAID controller installed, the BIOS banner display is garbled or does not appear atall. Cannot flash or update the EEPROM. Contact Dell™ support for assistance. CAUTION: Do not perform a firmware flash update while a check consistency or background initialization process is ongoing or failure could result. The BIOS Configuration Utility does not detect a replaced physical drive in a RAID 1 array and offer the option to start a rebuild. After the drive is replaced, the utility shows all drives online and all logical drives reporting optimal state. It does not allow rebuild because no failed drives are found. Perform the following steps to solve this problem: 1. Access the BIOS configuration Utility and select Configure/View HostRAID settings. 2. Highlight the RAID array and press 3. Press to rebuild. After rebuilding is complete, the problem is resolved and the operating system will boot. BIOS Boot Error Messages The following table describes error messages about the BIOS that can display at bootup, the problems, and suggested solutions. Message SCSI controller configuration error Problem Suggested Solution This error has resulted from insufficient system I/O resource. Reset the system CMOS to defualt settings. Remove some PCI add on card. SCSI IDx connected but not ready SCSI IDx - Start Unit Request failed Time-out failure during SCSI Inquiry Command! Rescanning for SCSI devices... SEEPROM checksum error has been corrected Failed to respond to SCSI Test Unit Ready command. Drive not ready for spin up. Replace drive. Drive failed to spin up. Replace drive. The inquiry command Check loose cable fails to complete in a or lower the data certain time interval. transfer rate. Retrying the SCSI Check loose cable inquiry command after or check duplicate it fails the first time. SCSI target ID. SEEPROM checksum BIOS will self