5.11 Changing Controller Options from the BIOS
Selecting Controller Options allows you to configure whether arrays may be bootable, as well as other aspects of the boot process. The default is to configure an array so that an operating system can boot from the RAID. If an error occurs, an error message is displayed. However, you may be booting from the motherboard IDE or another SCSI device in your system. If this is the case, you may not want to install INT13 (with- out INT13, DOS cannot see the array).
Note: If you configure Boot Mode to install INT13 and to never display an error message, you will not know during the boot process if an array is degraded or if other problems have occurred.
This menu also sets whether you want the boot process to pause when an error occurs. When the Pause feature is enabled and an array goes critical or offline, or there is a controller configuration error, the boot process stops and you must press Enter to continue booting. This gives you time to view the error message on the screen. If the Pause feature is disabled, the error message is displayed briefly, but the system continues to boot.
To select a boot option:
1.From the Main menu, select Controller Options. The Controller Options area is displayed in the BIOS Array Configuration Util- ity window as shown below. The current settings display in magenta text above the white selectable options.
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