I have a Promise SATA/150 controller installed in my unraid server and every time I boot up the server it asks me to press F1 to continue. After pressing F1 everything is fine. I would like to be able to shutdown the server when not being used (Standby would be better... ) but don't want to have to hit F1 everytime I want to bring it up.

 

According to the manual here:

http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/installation_guides/sata_150_pci_card_installation_guide.pdf

on page 10 (or page 14 using the adobe page numbers) it says it will do this but every time? That just seems stupid, I can understand once!!!!!

 

Anyone know if there is anything I can do about this???

You might need to go into F2 setup and enable/disable something.

Sometimes there are options in the local bios for the controller to present a screen or not, time out or not.

I have an Adaptec 1430a and it has a BIOS screen that is accessed using some obscure control key combination during boot.  I had to fiddle with a few of the settings to turn off the RAID functionality and disable BIOS support (this is from memory - I forget the exact settings I changed).  Your board may have something similar as WeeboTech suggests.

I had to fiddle with a few of the settings to turn off the RAID functionality and disable BIOS support

 

were you ever able to stop it from doing the loooooong drive discovery process?

 

 

I don't have a long drive discovery process.  I think it is slightly slower than the SuperMicro board.  It takes maybe 10-15 seconds if I remember right.

 

I do have all 4 ports used.  Not sure if an empty port could cause unusual delays.

Ok I went home and went into the BIOS to setup WOL and noticed Keyboard Errors was turned on, I don't have a KB hooked up so I turned that off. The F1 message is now gone!!!!

 

Stumbled on it by accident

 

Thanks,

Scott