Frustrating 'drive locked' RAID problem

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Ironchef3500

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Dell Vostro 420 1.3.0 Bios. Bios set to RAID, two sata drives. I have never had this happen before. When I attempt to enter the matrix storage manager to make the raid array, it gives me an error saying one of the drives is locked and to enter the password in the BIOS. One, there is no hard drive lock feature in the bios, two there was never any password put on the drives! I have even tried a third drive removing each one of the two at a time and still get the locked error. Thoughts? Ideas?:mad:
 
thanks I will take a look. This is really frustrating at 8am. Did I mention I hate vostros?
 
I know, I dont want raid five tho. Just wanted 0 for the speed. Screw it, he's getting one disk. Thanks anyways.
 
...what are you talking about?

You can still use RAID-0 with that ROM. I just told you that. It supports 0/1/5/10. Not sure where you're getting the idea that it only does 5. What RAID system only allows RAID-5?
 
I understand that, but what is the point? You're thinking that will fix the drive locked error? I assumed at this point it was something dell had done.
 
Sorry I didn't mean for my comment so sound like I assumed it only did 5. I have been doing this for many years, I am not that stupid :)
 
I'm "Dansolo" there and I do work with a fair amount of Award and AMI BIOS stuff (particularly Award). Feel free to request stuff here...
 
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