Promise Technology FastTrak TX2300 - Manual (Page 108)

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What system BIOS setup settings do I use for the drives on the FastTrak?
None. The drives on the FastTrak TX Series are supported by the FastTrak
BIOS and/or OS drivers, not by your system BIOS.
How do I partition/format my FastTrak disk array?
The FastTrak TX Series represents the disk array as a single disk drive to
your system. Therefore, anything that you can do to a single disk drive you
can do to a FastTrak disk array. You can partition the disk array as you see
fit using any file system you want.
Critical disk array (array) status error reported during boot
If a critical status error message appears on the FastTrak BIOS startup
screen for a RAID1 disk array, there is a drive in the disk array that has failed
or is not responding. The mirrored disk array has lost its fault tolerance, but
will still perform normal drive reads and writes. See “Logical Drive Critical /
Offline” on page 84.
Disk drives cannot be formed into a disk array
Disk drives must support Serial ATA and be free of media defects in order to
be added to a disk array. Promise recommends using new identical disk
drives for each disk array. Also, re-check the data and power cabling and
connections.
System CMOS displays C: or D: drive failure during Startup
Do not reference C: or D: in the Motherboard Standard CMOS for drives
attached to the FastTrak Serial ATA RAID Controller. Only enter drive
information in the Motherboard CMOS for drives attached to the onboard
IDE controller.