AYE CARAMBA!! need help with RAID!!!

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 04:23 PM

ok i am setting up my RAID on a fasttrak66 and i am booting up it says..."Warning, Fastrak does noty detect proper interrupts, PLease check your PCI IRQ setup, andmake sure the PCI slot support Bus master operations" what the heck does this mean and how do i fix it? i have lloked for anything in the BIOS that says busmaster operations and i cant find anything..anyone know what all this means and how to fix it??? so i can load on windpows and whatnot...eek!!

thanks guys!!

Ryan

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 05:10 PM

bump....need help, i'm on my roommate computer...and its an INTEL!!! aarrgghh!!!

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 05:59 PM

bump...

**Torg** · 10-21-2001, 06:02 PM

did you try moving it to a different pci slot?

-Torg

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 06:04 PM

yeah, a couple of differnet pci slots..andi took everything else out cept for the video card, but no luck...any other ideas?

thanks forthe help

Ryan

**Torg** · 10-21-2001, 06:08 PM

my guess is you have an IRQ conflict of somesort.

if your not using any of the onboard devices (sound, parallel ports, serial ports, any other crap that mobo manufacturers put on) try turning that stuff off.

what manufacturer of board is it?

-Torg

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 06:14 PM

I have an asus a7a266 mobo..its all in my sig down there...i am trying to install a promise fasttrak66 Raid controller with two 40 gigs maxtor hard drives..7200rpm

thx..oh and the serial port thing didnt work..any other ideas?

Thanks dude

Ryan

**Torg** · 10-21-2001, 06:22 PM

well, here is another long shot you can try... in the bios, prolly under PnP/PCI settings there is a reset ESCD option, set that to enabled and reboot, might fix it, but won't cause any problems if it doesn't.

-Torg

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 06:27 PM

hhmm...i cant seem to find anoption like that in my bios...i even went as far as assigning a totally free irq slot to my fasttrak card...irq 3(since i turned off my serial ports) and no luck...got any other tricks up your sleeve? it seems as though i might have to chalk another failed upgrade to jsut a stupid incompatibility thingy...lol...any toher ideas??

Thanks so much for yuor help

Ryan

**Torg** · 10-21-2001, 06:29 PM

That option is in there somewhere, it might be called ESCD, or Reset Configuration Data, or something like that, what it does is reset the IRQ's and what not that the pnp bios spits out. it was listed as a solution on promise's site as well. I'd find that setting and try it.

-Torg

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 07:24 PM

OK i found it, under Reset config data, thanks...it didnt seem to work though...i set it as yes, and then saved changesand excited,restarted and di the same thing...so..i dont think it worked....not a good sign! lol

thank you...any other ideas?? i am at a total loss..i dont knowmuch aboutRAID..thoughi surmise i will rather soon...hehe

Ryan

**Jim McPhillips** · 10-21-2001, 07:39 PM

Does your BIOS have an option to specify a PNP OS?
This allows the OS to redirect the IRQ's.
Disabled the OS will try and keep the IRQ assignment as handed it by the BIOS.
Just a thought to get past the conflict.

**Shaft9ii** · 10-21-2001, 07:42 PM

yeah, it has that option, and right now it is enabled..but i dont have an OS installed at themoment..this error occurs as itsloading up the Raid controller cards bios..jsut before there would be the loading of the OS (if there were one)

so should i try disabling this?

Thanks Jim

Ryan

**Shaft9ii** · 10-22-2001, 12:14 AM

bump

**Jim McPhillips** · 10-22-2001, 12:47 AM

Sorry couldn't get on for a while there.
try this

It mentions disabling PCI sterring. and other issues.
Good Luck

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