A device selection window displays the devices connected to the current controller. The failed drives have FAIL indicators.

2Press the arrow keys to highlight any failed drives to be rebuilt.,

3Press the spacebar to select the desired physical drives for rebuild.

4After you select the physical drives, press <F10>.

5Select Yes at the prompt.

The indicators for the selected drives change to REBLD. Rebuilding can take some time, depending on the number of drives selected and the drive capacities.

6When rebuild is complete, press any key to continue.

7Press <Esc> to display the Management Menu.

Using a Pre-loaded SCSI Drive “As-is”

You may have a SCSI hard drive that is already loaded with software. The drive may be a boot disk containing an operating system. If so, add the PERC device driver to this system drive before you switch to the PERC 3 and attempt to boot from it. You can use the PERC 3 controller as a SCSI adapter for such a drive by performing the following steps.

1Connect the SCSI drive to the channel on the PERC 3 controller, with proper termination and TID settings.

2Boot the computer.

3Press <Ctrl><M> to start the BIOS Configuration Utility.

4Select Configure—>Easy Configuration.

5Press the cursor keys to select the pre-loaded drive.

6Press the spacebar.

The pre-loaded drive should now become an array element.

7Press <Enter>.

You have now declared the pre-loaded drive as a one-disk array. The logical drive configuration screen displays.

8Set the Read Policy on the Advanced Menu.

9Set the Cache Policy on the Advanced Menu.

NOTE: To use a pre- loaded system drive in the manner described here, you must make it the first logical drive defined (for example: LD1) on the controller it is connected to. This will make the drive ID 0 LUN 0. If the drive is not a boot device, the logical drive number is not critical.

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