"agit8er" said:
New build using all new components. My cd rom and dvd burner are on the ide
primary and secondary.
I have three sata hard drives on the raid sata ports. On boot up yesterday
my ide drives showed up correctly.
Today I set up my hard drives. Now when I boot, at the ide scanning part,
it reads : error!! firmware not ready
turn off power and restart. Any tips? Did I disable something in set up?
I do have power to the two ide drives.
Thanx
Jeff
The error message is coming from the IT8212 Option ROM.
The IT8212 is a strange beast. I recommend reading everything you can in
the manual. For example, one part of the manual proudly proclaims you
can connect four IDE drives to the IT8212. Another section talks about
connecting a maximum of two Ultra ATA drives ? It almost seems like a
copy/paste of some text from a 8211 manual.
The Asus FAQ page for the board, also has an odd comment:
This concerns bootup from an optical drive on the IT8212. It says
try the Southbridge cable instead. If you read the release notes
from the people at ITE, they seem to think this chip supports
everything... Note that the staff at ITE who wrote the software,
actually explain that they have never written code like this
before, and that is why they seemed particularly proud of their
accomplishments
http://support.asus.com/faq/faq_rig...E-0597-2EC8-3478-46005443FDDE&SLanguage=en-us
What does it all mean ? I haven't a clue. Obviously how you currently
have the stuff connected to the 8212, it is not a configuration
that the Option ROM supports. Try fiddling the config a bit, and
see if the symptoms change for the better. (I.e. Put two drives
on one cable. Or try one drive on each cable. Try cable select.
Try master/slave jumpers. Try moving one optical drive to the
Southbridge. Be imaginative.)
The following shows some of the text strings inside the IT8212
Option ROM, which is the 19th module inside the BIOS flash. This
is from 1010.005. (I particularly like the reference to
"press OTHER KEY" -- every keyboard has an ANY key, but my
keyboard doesn't have an OTHER key
)
******* Some strings from the IT8212 Option ROM **********
IT8212 ATAPI BIOS V1.7.1.591
Please wait for IDE scan
UDMA
A bootable CDROM was found in Drive
Error!! System BIOS does not support PCI BIOS Specification.
Error!! IT8212 not found....
Error!! IT8212 initialization failed.
IT8212 RAID BIOS V1.7.1.94
Copyright 2002-2005 ITE, Inc. All Rights Reserved
F/W Ver
Drive 0: Not Detected
Drive 1: Not Detected
Drive 2: Not Detected
Drive 3: Not Detected
Array
IDE
Please wait for IDE scan..
Press <Ctrl-F> or <Ctrl-E> to enter Setup Utility or
Press <ESC> or <S> to continue booting....
Press <Ctrl-F> or <Ctrl-E> to enter Setup Utility....
Warning!! RAID configuration error....
Error!! Fail to get chip status. Please Power off your system, power it on
and try again.
Error!! Firmware is not ready. Please Power off your system, power it on
and try again.
Please wait for RAID configuration ....
Warning!! Disks in array
are changed their original locations.
This is not allowed for
array, please enter SetUp Utility
to reconfigure your array.
Warning!! An Ultra ATA/66 (or faster) drive is connected with a 40-pin IDE
cable on the primary channel. Drive speed is downgraded to Ultra ATA/33 mode.
Warning!! An Ultra ATA/66 (or faster) drive is connected with a 40-pin IDE
cable on the secondary channel. Drive speed is downgraded to Ultra ATA/33 mode.
Warning!! Array reconstruction has not be completed yet,
please enter Setup Utility to rebuild array.
Error!! Fail to set chip status. Please Power off your system, power it on
and try again.
Warning!! Fail to determine current reconstruction status.
Drive
in Array
data is inconsistent, please press ANY KEY to
start rebuilding.
reconstruction is restarted.
Fail to restart array reconstruction
Error!! Problem is detected with Array
A disk member of this array was replaced and array is not functional now.
Disk members of this array were
Please press <Y> to add drive
into array automatically or
and
press OTHER KEY to setup array manually later.
Warning!! The capacity of drive
is not enough to be the replacement drive of Array
A disk member of this array was removed and it is not functional now.
Please press <Y> to set up drive
as a IDE drive automatically or
$RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 0+1
JBOD
*****************
Paul
