Adding a hard drive to an E520

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:41:04 -0700, Tracy <muppettracy@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Just placed an order from SVC for a 24" SATA II right angle cable. The
>18" might have been ok but I got the 24" just to be sure it would fit
>in any of the SATA ports.

That's exactly what I did -- purchased the 24" just to be safe.

The cable came in today. I installed it and I have the second drive
running with no major problems.

But I am getting a message each time the system boots. It's something
to the effect of "Raid Volume: None, Physical Disks (and then both
drives are shown) with a message to "press ctrl+I to executive config
utility." I hit CTRL+I but nothing happens. The system boots into
Windows after a minute or so.

How do I get rid of this message? I tried resetting the bios, but it's
still appearing.

That's normal. You don't want to get rid of it. It is a message from
the RAID controller telling you how to get into the RAID bios if you
choose to define an array (CTRL+I). You don't, so it will skip right
past that and boot. I get the same message on my XPS410.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy [mailto:muppettracy@hotmail.com]
> Posted At: Saturday, July 07, 2007 4:36 PM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: Adding a hard drive to an E520
> Subject: Re: Adding a hard drive to an E520
>
> The cable came in today. I installed it and I have the second drive
> running with no major problems.
>
> But I am getting a message each time the system boots. It's something
> to the effect of "Raid Volume: None, Physical Disks (and then both
> drives are shown) with a message to "press ctrl+I to executive config
> utility." I hit CTRL+I but nothing happens. The system boots into
> Windows after a minute or so.
>
> How do I get rid of this message? I tried resetting the bios, but it's
> still appearing.

The message is normal - part of the normal post routine. Ignore it.

"Tracy" <muppettracy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183840533.220804.162110@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
> The cable came in today. I installed it and I have the second drive
> running with no major problems.
>
> But I am getting a message each time the system boots. It's something
> to the effect of "Raid Volume: None, Physical Disks (and then both
> drives are shown) with a message to "press ctrl+I to executive config
> utility." I hit CTRL+I but nothing happens. The system boots into
> Windows after a minute or so.
>
> How do I get rid of this message? I tried resetting the bios, but it's
> still appearing.
>

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:35:33 -0700, Tracy <muppettracy@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>The cable came in today. I installed it and I have the second drive
>running with no major problems.

I think SVC is a great place to order cables, hardware parts, and
similar items from. The items are priced right, shipping is
inexpensive, and the items arrive quickly. It sounds like you had a
good experience with them too.