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Promise FastTrak TX2000 reboot problem
I have a FastTrak TX2000 set up to do RAID1 mirroring with two 40 gig IDE
drives under Windows 2000. It does everything I need it to do, except I do have one problem. The machine it is in is a remote PC sitting in a server closet in another building. If the mirror becomes unsynchronized, and the PC is rebooted, instead of booting back into Windows where it will rebuild the mirror automatically once it starts, it stops at the BIOS boot level, saying that it has detected an error, and to either press CTRL-F to enter the setup or press ESC to continue the boot. It hangs at this point, waiting for keyboard input. This is obviously no good for a machine sitting in a closet where nobody can get to it. I end up having to drive across town to press ESC to let the machine boot. What I would like is for it to default to pressing "ESC", or for it to default to this after a timeout period. Anyone know if this this possible, short of reverse-engineering the BIOS update file for the card? I'd like to know that if one of my mirrored drives fails, and the machine reboots for any reason, it is actually going to reboot, instead of sitting at a BIOS screen saying "hit ESC to continue". I mean, isn't that kind of the point behind a mirrored fault-tolerant system? |
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