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Chapter 6: Troubleshooting & Tips

To remove the Reserve Sector, follow these steps:

1. During boot up, press Ctrl-F to enter the FastBuild BIOS utility.

2. Choose option 1, View Drive Assignments.

3. Press arrow keys to highlight the drive where you wish to remove the

reserve sector.

4. Press Alt-F1. The following message will appear: Press Ctrl-Y to delete the

data in the disk or press any key to abort.

5. Press Ctrl-Y. The following message will appear: The Reserved Sector was

wiped! System will reboot when you exit this menu. Press any key to

continue.

6. Take the appropriate action:

• For striped arrays, repeat this process for each member of the

particular array that is having a problem. When you are finished, press

the Esc key twice to reboot.

• For mirrored arrays, hit the Esc key twice to reboot.

7. After rebooting, use FastBuild to re-create the array.

• For striped arrays, use FDISK and FORMAT after setting up the array.

• For mirrored arrays, rebuild the mirrored array.

Array Constantly Goes Into Critical or Offline Mode During Reboot

See Unable to Partition or Format array, above.

Cannot Rebuild Mirrored (RAID 1) Array

See Unable to Partition or Format array, above.

Fatal Errors or Data Corruption Are Constantly Reported When Reading or

Writing to Drive Array

See Unable to Partition or Format array, above.