Warning KERNEL.346520: Error initializing IDE drive D:

[FraWo]

Hi,

im using a NI PXI-8176 Controller with Labview 7.1 RT, NI-DAQmx 7.5.0,
IMAQ Vision RT 7.1.1, IMAQ for IEEE 1394 RT 2.0.1 and IMAQ Server 1.6.0 installed.
After reboot i get the "KERNEL.346520: Error initializing IDE drive D:" error message on my VGA monitor and the system halts,
on every second/third reboot the application startup.exe is loaded and everything seems to work fine.
If there is no target application the KERNEL error message does not appear, so it has to be a
problem with the startup.exe. There is no IDE drive D in the system.
I suspect a problem with the IMAQ driver, because a system with the same hardware without IMAQ stuff installed does not show this behavior.
Anybody out there who can give me a hint where to start the search?

regards
Frank

[Arsala]

Hi Frank,
you told there is no HDD declared as 😧 in your controller.
When you format a HDD with NTFS then this error occur.
As you told here I think it's the IMAQ driver too.
That error occur only when you start the application after boot.
One solution could be a update of your IMAQ-Driver. Another possiblity is to make the startup program a simple VI that first waits 30 seconds and then launches the main (complete) executable using VI Server. The program will start every time.
Hope that helps.

regards
Arsala
National Instruments

[FraWo]

Hi Arsala,

thanks for your advice, as you mentioned i make a startup program which waits 30 seconds and it seems to work fine.
The KERNEL.346520 error still appears when the main application launches but the system does not halt.
The hdd is formated as fat32 i guess.

regards
Frank