BIOS warning

[bobbymcgee]

Hello,
First, let me say that this is a great little box.

I have an annoying problem booting my Dell XPS Studio with the enclosure connected. It is NOT the boot drive. Right after the POST, I get: "Notice: Hard Drive SELF MONITORING SYSTEM has reported that a parameter has exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate a potential hard drive problem. Press F2 to resume."

How can I avoid this? Anything I can disable in the BIOS?

Cheers

Edits: The enclosure is set to RAID 1. I connect using SATA. The HDDs are Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640GB Laptop Drive 2.5" WD6400BEVT. SteelVine built the array and reports no errors (both HDD are NORMAL). SteelVine also fails to report RPM or temperature.

[Patriot_CJ]

you are using this as secondary storage?

can you give me alittle information on your setup?

are you connecting via SATA? ESATA? USB?

[bobbymcgee]

Hello Patriot CJ,
The enclosure is set to RAID 1. I connect using SATA (the enclosure slides in a tray). It is used as secondary storage. The HDDs are Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640GB Laptop Drive 2.5" WD6400BEVT. SteelVine built the array and reports no errors (both HDD report NORMAL). SteelVine also fails to report RPM or temperature (not surprised as there are no fans...).

Thank you

[Patriot_CJ]

possibily just Dell's bios warning. You may want to check in their bios and see if you can deactivate warning.

could be just a standard warning due to adding new components to the system.

[bobbymcgee]

Hello Patriot_CJ,
Thanks for your input. Before posting here, I researched Dell documentation and that error message directly relates to S.M.A.R.T. features on their servers line of product. My computer is just a Dell Studio XPS, but it can be configured in some RAID option. So I reviewed the whole BIOS and found nothing I could disable (relating to S.M.A.R.T. or something close). Next, I updated the BIOS, same outcome.

Could an option be placed in the Convoy's firmware to report normal fan RPM and normal temp? I know it'd be wrong since there's no fan, but that might get the system passed this hiccup! (Then, maybe, I could boot my "home server" remotely...)

Cheers

[Patriot_CJ]

we are switching to a different controller.. let me check if possible with new rev.