Contents

4.4

Advanced menu..........................................................................

4-14

 

4.4.1

CPU Configuration.........................................................

4-14

 

4.4.2

Chipset Configuration....................................................

4-16

 

4.4.3

PCI/PnP Configuration...................................................

4-20

 

4.4.4

USB Configuration.........................................................

4-22

 

4.4.5

Peripheral Configuration................................................

4-23

 

4.4.6

ACPI Configuration........................................................

4-24

 

4.4.7

Power On Configuration................................................

4-25

 

4.4.8

Hardware Monitor..........................................................

4-26

4.5

Server menu................................................................................

4-28

 

4.5.1

Remote Access Configuration.......................................

4-28

4.6

Security

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4-30

4.7

Boot menu...................................................................................

4-32

 

4.7.1

Boot Device Priority.......................................................

4-32

 

4.7.2

Boot Settings Configuration...........................................

4-33

4.8

Exit menu.....................................................................................

4-34

Chapter 5:RAID configuration

 

5.1

Setting up RAID............................................................................

5-1

 

5.1.1

RAID definitions...............................................................

5-1

 

5.1.2

Installing hard disk drives................................................

5-2

 

5.1.3

Setting the RAID item in BIOS.........................................

5-2

 

5.1.4

RAID configuration utilities..............................................

5-2

5.2

LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility.....................................

5-3

 

5.2.1

Creating a RAID 0 or RAID 1 set.....................................

5-4

 

5.2.2

Creating a RAID 10 set..................................................

5-10

 

5.2.3

Adding or viewing a RAID configuration........................

5-14

 

5.2.4

Initializing the logical drives...........................................

5-17

 

5.2.5

Rebuilding failed drives.................................................

5-22

 

5.2.6

Checking the drives for data consistency......................

5-24

 

5.2.7

Deleting a RAID configuration.......................................

5-27

 

5.2.8

Selecting the boot drive from a RAID set......................

5-28

 

5.2.9

Enabling the WriteCache...............................................

5-29

5.3

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM Utility..................

5-30

 

5.3.1

Creating a RAID 0 set (Stripe).......................................

5-31

 

5.3.2

Creating a RAID 1 set (Mirror).......................................

5-33

 

5.3.3

Creating a RAID 10 set (Stripe + Mirror).......................

5-34