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Initialize Menu

Choose Initialize from the BIOS Configuration Utility Management Menu to initialize one or more logical drives. Press the space bar to select a single driver or the <F2> key to select all drives for initialization. This action typically follows the configuration of a new logical drive.

NOTICE: Initializing a logical drive destroys all data on the logical drive.

Objects Menu

Choose Objects from the Management Menu to access the adapters, logical drives, physical drives, and SCSI channels individually. You can also change settings for each object. The Objects menu options are described in the following sections.

Adapter

Choose Objects—>Adapterto select a controller (if the computer has more than one) and to modify parameters. You can install only one PERC 3 controller, but you can install other PERC controllers.

Table 11-3 describes the Adapter menu options.

Ta b l e 1 1 - 3 . A d ap t er M en u O p t i on s

Option	Description
Clear	Choose this option to erase the current configuration from
Configuration	the controller non-volatile memory.
FlexRAID	Choose this option to enable or disable the FlexRAID
PowerFail	PowerFail feature. This option allows drive reconstruction,
	rebuild, and check consistency to continue when the system
	restarts because of a power failure, reset, or hard boot.
Fast Initialization	Select this option to write zeros to the first sector of the
	logical drive so that initialization occurs in 2 – 3 seconds.
	When this option is set to Disabled, a full initialization
	takes place on the entire logical drive. On a larger array
	(over 5 arrays), it is best to set fast initialization to
	Disabled, then initialize. Otherwise, the controller will run
	a background consistency check within five minutes of
	reboot or RAID 5 creation.

NOTE: See page 178 for procedures for initializing logical drives.

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