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joe.white at wachovia

Jun 6, 2008, 1:31 PM

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OT: Backplane Modules

A little over a year ago, I bought an IcyDock 5 bay back plane module [
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028 ] to house
my hopefully-impending software raid array. In setting up the box I
started getting the error "Hardware Initiate failed, please check
device!!! The BIOS does not be installed, press <g> to continue" [verbatim
quote] upon boot. Sometimes before that message, the text describing a
random drive would become garbled, or the a HD would simply not show up in
the list. Through the process of elimination, I discovered that removing
the backplane also removed the errors.

I am trying to figure if I just have a freak bad module, or if another
brand would be preferable. Thoughts?

Joe

anothersname at googlemail

Jun 6, 2008, 1:33 PM

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Re: OT: Backplane Modules [In reply to]

is it sata or ide?

Look at the supermicro 5 port sata ones....they work pretty well.

J

2008/6/6 <joe.white [at] wachovia>:
>
> A little over a year ago, I bought an IcyDock 5 bay back plane module [
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028 ] to house
> my hopefully-impending software raid array. In setting up the box I started
> getting the error "Hardware Initiate failed, please check device!!! The BIOS
> does not be installed, press <g> to continue" [verbatim quote] upon boot.
> Sometimes before that message, the text describing a random drive would
> become garbled, or the a HD would simply not show up in the list. Through
> the process of elimination, I discovered that removing the backplane also
> removed the errors.
>
> I am trying to figure if I just have a freak bad module, or if another brand
> would be preferable. Thoughts?
>
> Joe
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Jun 6, 2008, 1:38 PM

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Re: OT: Backplane Modules [In reply to]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:31 PM, <joe.white [at] wachovia> wrote:
>
> A little over a year ago, I bought an IcyDock 5 bay back plane module [
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028 ] to house
> my hopefully-impending software raid array. In setting up the box I started
> getting the error "Hardware Initiate failed, please check device!!! The BIOS
> does not be installed, press <g> to continue" [verbatim quote] upon boot.
> Sometimes before that message, the text describing a random drive would
> become garbled, or the a HD would simply not show up in the list. Through
> the process of elimination, I discovered that removing the backplane also
> removed the errors.
>
> I am trying to figure if I just have a freak bad module, or if another brand
> would be preferable. Thoughts?
>
Although I do not have that one I do have a few AMS 4 to 3 backplanes
and with them you can have these problems if the dive is twisted a
little in the backplane such that it does not get a good connection.

John
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Jun 6, 2008, 1:40 PM

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Re: OT: Backplane Modules [In reply to]

joe.white [at] wachovia wrote:
>
> A little over a year ago, I bought an IcyDock 5 bay back plane module
> [ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028 ] to
> house my hopefully-impending software raid array. In setting up the
> box I started getting the error "Hardware Initiate failed, please
> check device!!! The BIOS does not be installed, press <g> to continue"
> [verbatim quote] upon boot. Sometimes before that message, the text
> describing a random drive would become garbled, or the a HD would
> simply not show up in the list. Through the process of elimination, I
> discovered that removing the backplane also removed the errors.
>
> I am trying to figure if I just have a freak bad module, or if another
> brand would be preferable. Thoughts?
>
> Joe
The ICY Dock back plane modules had a design flaw that caused issues. In
my case the computer wouldn't even post. I had two of them replaced
under warrenty (1x5-bay,1x3-bay). ICY Dock introduced a revised version
after which I didn't hear complaints. All of mine are working fine since
the replacement.
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Jun 6, 2008, 4:40 PM

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Re: OT: Backplane Modules [In reply to]

I own 3 of those for about 4 months, and never had such problems.

I guess that I am lucky...

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:31 PM, <joe.white [at] wachovia> wrote:

>
> A little over a year ago, I bought an IcyDock 5 bay back plane module [
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994028 ] to house
> my hopefully-impending software raid array. In setting up the box I started
> getting the error "Hardware Initiate failed, please check device!!! The BIOS
> does not be installed, press <g> to continue" [verbatim quote] upon boot.
> Sometimes before that message, the text describing a random drive would
> become garbled, or the a HD would simply not show up in the list. Through
> the process of elimination, I discovered that removing the backplane also
> removed the errors.
>
> I am trying to figure if I just have a freak bad module, or if another
> brand would be preferable. Thoughts?
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>

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