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Ta b l e 1 1 - 1 . B I O S C o n f i gu r at i o n U t i l i t y M en u O p t i on s

Option

Description

 

 

Objects

Select this option to individually access controllers, logical drives,

 

and physical drives.

 

 

Format

Select this option to low-level format hard disk drives.

 

 

Rebuild

Select this option to rebuild failed disk drives.

 

 

Check

Select this option to verify that the redundancy data in logical

Consistency

drives using RAID level 1, 5, 10, or 50 is correct.

 

 

Select

Select this option to list the adapters and select the adapter that

Adapter

you want to configure. The number of the selected adapter

 

displays in the top right corner of the screen, along with its mode,

 

either standard or cluster.

 

 

Configure Menu

Choose Configure to select a method for configuring arrays and logical drives. Table 11-2 displays the configuration methods, clear configuration option, and boot drive option.

Ta b l e 1 1 - 2 . C o n f i g u r a t i on M e n u O p t i o n s

Option

Description

 

 

Easy

Select this method to perform a logical drive configuration

Configuration

where every physical array you define is automatically

 

associated with exactly one logical drive.

 

 

New

Select this method to discard the existing configuration

Configuration

information and to configure new arrays and logical drives. In

 

addition to providing the basic logical drive configuration

 

functions, New Configuration allows you to associate logical

 

drives with multiple arrays (spanning.)

 

 

View/Add

Select this method to examine the existing configuration

Configuration

and/or to specify additional arrays and logical drives.

 

View/Add Configuration provides the same functions

 

available in New Configuration.

 

 

Clear

Select this option to erase the current configuration

Configuration

information from the PERC 3 non-volatile memory.

 

 

Specify Boot

Select this option to specify a logical drive as the boot drive

Logical Drive

on this adapter.

 

 

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