[mythtv-users] OT: Backplane Modules

Sebastien Astie sastie at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 23:40:09 UTC 2008


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.com> 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
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