scottw Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 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??? Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 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. Link to comment
SSD Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 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. Link to comment
jimwhite Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 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? Link to comment
SSD Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 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. Link to comment
scottw Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 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 Link to comment
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