B.3 Error Messages

You may encounter some of the following RAIDWatch Manager error messages. This section provides some guidance for those messages that may be unclear. Note that this is not an exhaustive list of RAIDWatch Manager error messages.

Under Channel Settings

Message : Undefined Channel Mode
Explanation : Channels must be defined as either a drive or host channel.
Message : Drive channel should have at least one PID!
Explanation : Please assign one PID to each drive channel.
Message : Channel settings failed!
Explanation : Please check the channel settings.
Message : Drive channel can only have one ID! Please remove ID from PID list first, and then add.
Explanation : Please remove the current ID from the PID list first, then add the new one.
Under Logical Drive Creation
Message : Maximum RAID 3 or RAID 5 drive count is 31!
Explanation : You cannot create a RAID3 or RAID5 logical drive with more than 31 SCSI drives. Reduce the number of drives you are using.
Under Logical Drive Settings
Message : Delete Logical Drive failed!
What can be done : The logical drive maybe a member of a LV, so it can not be deleted.
Message : Rebuild failed!
What can be done : Use another new drive and try to perform the rebuild again.
Message : Expand logical drive failed!
What can be done : Replace the hard drive and rebuild the logical drive.
Message : Add drives failed!
Adding drive is a re-initialization process.  A failure during the process will be fatal.

What can be done : Delete the logical drive then recreate the logical drive.
 

Message : Change LD assignment failed!
What can be done : Check if drive channel is assigned both PID and SID that own the member SCSI drive of this LD.
Under RAID View
Message : Currently, controller supports 8 LDs.
Explanation : Currently, the controller can only support 8 logical drives.
Message : Setup redundant controller failed!
Explanation : Check the redundant controller configuration. See if the PID and SID of drive and host channels are all correct and if the logical drives (volumes) are correctly assigned.
All other RAIDWatch Manager error messages should be fairly self-explanatory.

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